lol I hear ya. I wish he were running as an Independent tho, I'll never vote Republican even if they promise to make bitcoin the national currency and give a free pet monkey to every US citizen. Seriously tho move this thread to politics forum.

Where is Porky? Hiding in the toilet to escape from the hired goons of Ihor Kolomoyskyi?

With inflation nearing triple digits (within an year!) and Hryvnia losing as much as 70% of its value, the only option left for Western Ukrainians like you is to mass-migrate to some other country in search of livelihood. The EU will not welcome them. The only option left is Russia.  

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He added the application is compatible with all major operating systems, including Android, Apple and Windows. Those wishing to contact the president can do so via Facebook and local social networks, as well as by SMS, MMS and telephone.

"Questions will be accepted until the last moment of the 'Direct Line'," Peskov added.

Putin's hotlines have become a well-established tradition throughout the years of his presidency. The first live session was held in April 2001. Their duration has been increasing steadily over recent years, with the 2013 conference lasting a record 4 hours 47 minutes. The last hotline in 2014 lasted 3 hours 55 minutes and centered around the Ukrainian crisis.

Really? It was 'necessary' for the good of the people and had nothing to do with rich coal deposits at all, right. How generous of USSR! Poland received unhabitant forests and USSR grabbed rich coal deposits. "Officially, the Polish side claimed that the exchange took place on Warsaw’s initiative. However, in the early 1950s, Poland was de facto ruled by Moscow and all decisions were taken there. The Soviets claimed that the area of Ustrzyki possessed deposits of oil, but it turned out that all sources had been exploited". You can read more here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_territorial_exchange

The Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa has become even more famous than she's already been among the online community, after her political views cost her a job with a Canadian orchestra. And she doesn't plan on being silenced, she told RT.

"I always separated music from politics and tried to keep enormous distance between the two," the pianist told RT's 'In the Now' host Anissa Naouai on Tuesday, after news of how she's been treated by Canada's Toronto Symphony Orchestra has spread globally.

The hashtag #LetValentinaPlay surged in popularity on social media, and thousands of supporters spoke out for the artist, who was offered to be paid not to play.

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"I never expected my music to be silenced," the pianist said, adding that she's "totally for freedom of speech, freedom of discussion and freedom of heated argument."

"That's what I've been doing on Twitter," she said, explaining her extensive tweeting on Ukraine on the social platform, with her point of view not falling in line with the popular Western narrative, allegedly costing her a job.

"I always thought that things like that could only happen somewhere in the countries known to be undemocratic," the ethnic Ukrainian, who has lived in the United States for 20 years and has both American and Ukrainian passports, said.

"I tried to have a conversation with the Symphony through the management, but the only way they would talk to me is through their lawyer, [from whom] I got quite offensive letters," Lisitsa said, adding that those letters contained accusations of her having "come close to committing a crime by inciting hatred [by posting] inflammatory tweets."
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Lada Ray | April 8, 2015 at 4:34 pm

Yes, I heard about Valentina Lisitsa sacking by Toronto Orchestra. She is one of the world’s best and most well-known contemporary classic pianists. The sacking by the democratic, neutral, fair and wonderful Toronto, CA, of the master of such class… what can I say. Nothing good, obviously.
This is a war between 2 opposing world views and it has been going on for a long time. Now, during the Earth Shift, it has intensified.
Incidentally, ‘lisitsa’ means ‘female fox’ in both Russian and Ukr. which again brings us back to the fact that both are one people and one language, with variations.
Bravo to Lisitsa for speaking up! She isn’t the only one: Anna Netrebko donated money to the destroyed Donetsk Opera and she was also bashed in the West. Then, this girl Marianna – the power lifting champion – had trouble in competition in the US for doing charity work in Donbass.
What can I say, we are dealing with the democratic, tolerant and compassionate West.

Is that what they teach you in your Russian schools? If not for the Russian and their help in securing Poland Hitler would have to dedicate much more time and resources in that region. If on the other hand Russians broke the agreement and defended Poland... But their move was to be expected since both Germany and Russia shared flawed socialist ideology.

That non-aggression pact was a brilliant tactical feat that postponed an imminent attack of Germany on the Soviet Union at a time when USSR was fighting with Germany's ally - Japan - in Mongolia. At that time USSR could ill afford fighting on two fronts, and would have surely lost. If not for that pact, Europe and Russia would be speaking German now, and China and the rest of Asia - Japanese. Always look at a a bigger picture.

Take your BS to somewhere else. 75% of the German army and a large part of the Japanese were involved in fighting the Soviets. Without the Soviets London would be speaking German instead of English now.

 I was sort of generalizing. There were a few opinion polls conducted in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine (before the civil war), Kazakhstan.etc, which showed good support for Stalin.

Hardly anyone in Bitcointalk cares about Hitler. On the other hand, there is a large portion who either detest or approve the actions of Stalin. There are a lot of (Western) Ukrainian and Baltic users who fall in to the former category, and the latter group is made up of Russians, Belorussians.etc.

On the note of bullet-point 1 in my reply to Snail2... The American ambassador to Czechia made a statement on the state Czech TV, condemning the Czech President for going to attend the 70th anniversary Victory parade in Moscow.
I really liked the Czech President's firm response. He said that he can't imagine a Czech ambassador telling the American president how to conduct his foreign affairs, and that he will not tolerate any ambassador telling him what to do. He further said that the American ambassador is no longer welcome at Prague City government complex.

What do you expect from a country where even the Google is censored? But one thing I have noticed is that ethnic Chinese, who have migrated to Western nations are mostly opposed to Communism and Mao.

Sean Gelles
 
It's pretty obvious which way Germany will go.  In the final analysis Friedman's forecast is skewed by his pro-Anglo-US bias.  If he were to apply to Germany the same theoretical method that he applies elsewhere he would see that the Berlin-Moscow axis is inevitable.  Germany has no future without Russia and Russia has no future without Germany.  The great statesmen of France, Germany's most important ally in the post-war era, have never been shy about this fact.  In 1949, during a Press Conference, De Gaulle famously said “I say that Europe must be built on the basis of an agreement between the French and the Germans. Once Europe is structured on that foundation, then we can turn to Russia. Then once and for all, we can try to build Europe as a whole with Russia included, should she change her regime.  Here is a program for true Europeans, here is mine.”  In 1996, Mitterand said "we are at war with America... A permanent war... a war without death.  They are very hard, the Americans -- they are voracious.  They want undivided power over the world."

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Susan O
 
I'm American and, like you, pay close attention to foreign affairs and geopolitics. I wish all Germans (and all of Europe, for that matter) would see what it is that's going on. The US WILL sacrifice Europe, next, if Europe doesn't wake the fuck up. How could a continent that was the battlefield for two world wars allow this to happen? It blows my mind. The AngloZionists are a threat to the entire world. When Victoria Nuland said, "Fuck the EU", that was aimed at Germany, the only real obstacle to AngloZionist plans. Now, the US is furious that Germany and France dared to meet with Putin, without the US approving or even being invited. That's why they're doing everything they can to stop any peace in Donbass. Now the idiots in Poland, the Baltics, Bulgaria and Romania are hosting a huge US military buildup in the name of "exercises". That US equipment and the US advisers will NOT be leaving.

Well, what´s left of George Soros has been whining lately about how his western political whores aren´t diligent enough in protecting his interests in the Ukraine. So, his concern probably has some stake in those mills. And eyes the Donbass of course.

Most of the pro-European, and therefore Ukrainian speaking people are speaking Ukrainian only for the public. The most of them are using Russian for everyday communication.

It´s a striking map. I guess that a major historical correction is inevitable sooner or later. It has in fact started in the Crimea and Donbass as we know. Good luck, g