Crimea

[bryant.coleman]

Another important development.

http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/pnews/krymskih-tatar-poprosyat-osvobodit-chast-zemel-temirgaliev-503479.html

[roslinpl]

Interesting news from Crimea. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26663168

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3vCT9ss5E

Sweet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3vCT9ss5E
I do not understand a word ..


what was this cute girl talking about?

[BCEmporium]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3vCT9ss5E
I do not understand a word ..


what was this cute girl talking about?

Who cares? I could watch her speaking day and night and I don't understand a word either.  

Anyway, here she is with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTOqplOTKjU

[Balthazar]

Smart isn't a quality but a handicap for women.

That's a wrong approach... Because then you yourself might be treated the same way.

I wouldn't want her to play chess...  

If two people have nothing in common outside of the bedroom, then they have no future. This could be very dangerous, especially if one of them have some executive or judicial power.

Are you from Russia, Germany or Greece?

All of them, I own some property there.

[bryant.coleman]

All of them, I own some property there.

Global citizen!

[Nemo1024]

Are you from Russia, Germany or Greece?

All of them, I own some property there.

I guess, it's not Greece, but Cyprus.

[BCEmporium]

If two people have nothing in common outside of the bedroom, then they have no future. This could be very dangerous, especially if one of them have some executive or judicial power.

Who's thinking about having a future?! Carpe diem!
She's cute now, as long term investment can be a way ruinous business. 

[Balthazar]

I guess, it's not Greece, but Cyprus.

Exactly The internet connection it's the only shitty thing here.

Who's thinking about having a future?! Carpe diem!

Sometimes it's better to stop and think about the consequences. But it's your choice, of course.

[Nemo1024]

Back on topic.
The Federate Council (Senate) ratified acceptance of Krym and Sevastopol into Russian Federation:
http://lenta.ru/news/2014/03/21/sovfed/

[bryant.coleman]

Exactly The internet connection it's the only shitty thing here.

How much money did you lost during the Cyprus haircut?

[Balthazar]

How much money did you lost during the Cyprus haircut?

Fortunately, all funds were withdrawn before this. But I lost something due to drop of house prices.

Back on topic.
The Federate Council (Senate) ratified acceptance of Krym and Sevastopol into Russian Federation:
http://lenta.ru/news/2014/03/21/sovfed/

Transitional period until 1 Jan 2015? Hm...

[Nemo1024]

And the final signature:
http://rt.com/news/russia-parliament-crimea-ratification-293/

In other news:
- US billionaire Soros suggests US floods the market with its oil reserve thus bringing oil price down. He thinks that would be the most effective sanction against Russia (has he heard about the concept of "cheap coinz, please"?)

The only thing these sanctions are doing is reinforcing the image og the US as the Evil Empire throwing a tantrum when it was denied a juicy bit of land to plant it missionary base on. It just brings Russians closer together, even those who criticized Putin would stop doing so in the face of the common enemy. And hardships is not something Russia unfamiliar with. It endured them before, it will persevere now.

- Sweets company Rochen will stop its production in Russia. (It is the same company, who got questioned for dubious use of chemistry in its products.  So the only thing Russia has to say to this "sanction" is: Thank you)

And a little bit more of Putin making fun of the "sanctions", while promising not to stoop down to the same level and not retaliate:
http://rt.com/news/putin-president-sanctions-bank-305/

Putin assured that Russia will refrain from retaliatory sanctions against the US and introducing a visa regime with Ukraine.

Putin believes that millions of innocent Ukrainian would suffer should Russia introduce a visa regime with Ukraine.

[Minefield4]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/petrodollar-alert-isolated-west-putin-prepares-announce-holy-grail-gas-deal-china

 

[Nemo1024]

Just some educational information.
Sevastopol has its own anthem, and the words of the anthem should make any invader think twice.

Sung in full here (note that the video was uploaded in 2011. Spot the scenes that virtually say to Ukraine and the West, "don't push too hard, the citizens of Sevastopol are fed up and might take action"):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMKOgIEPD-c

Fly winged wind,
Over seas, over land.
Tell the whole world
About my beloved town.

Tell to the whole world
That on Crimean shores
Our grandfathers fought
And glorified in battle.

[Chorus:]
Legendary Sevastopol,
Impregnable to enemies
Sevastopol, Sevastopol,
The pride of Russian sailors

Here we went to the rightful and holy battles
For our Motherland
And your previous glory,
Have we multiplied

Having shrugged of black overcoats,
The Black Sea sailors during the days of War
Went against tanks with only handgrenades
Your sons went to their deaths

[Chorus]

If across the sea
enemies should come to us with swords,
We'll meet unwelcomed guests
with annihilating fire

The whole of beloved country knows
That the battleships do not sleep,
And are guarding surely
The shores of homeland

[Chorus]

Music: Vano Muradeli
Text: Petr Gragov
Written: 1954
Ratified as the official anthem of Sevastopol on 29.07.1994


Russian text here:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F

You can hear a rendition of it here, where a girl spontaneously performed it at an election locale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERVP8BhP00

Ukrainians tried to re-write the text in 2006, replacing "Russian sailors" with "Ukrainian sailors",  "Sevastopol" with "whitestone fortress", and "kozaks" were added. The reaction of the citizens was strongly negative, to say the least.

I prey that US/NATO warmongers are not stupid enough and that Western soldiers would not need to hear that song performed on the other side of the trenches, as the citizens of Sevastopol yet again rise to defend their city from an "invasion from across the sea".

[Balthazar]

By the way, national anthem of the Republic of Crimea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNgPBh54pU

[247crypto]

http://www.vesti.ru/only_video.html?vid=586081

[Nemo1024]

http://www.vesti.ru/only_video.html?vid=586081

Nice fireworks in Moscow, Simferopol and Sevastopol!
Loved a comment from one of the women in Sevastopol who gave her special thanks to Obama and Merkel for starting the stuff in Kiev and making it possible it for Krym to return home.

[bryant.coleman]

Fortunately, all funds were withdrawn before this. But I lost something due to drop of house prices.

You were lucky!!!

I know people who lost heavily there.

[Nemo1024]

RT did a detailed and well-presented side-by-side comparison of Kosovo and Crimea cases:
http://rt.com/news/kosovo-crimea-referendum-recognition-441/

Wonderfully even-headed response from UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin to a CNN reporter:
http://rt.com/usa/churkin-response-amanpour-cnn-465/

Foreign Affairs Minister's Lavrov's address:
http://rt.com/politics/lavrov-crimea-slander-annexation-289/

[bryant.coleman]

RT did a detailed and well-presented side-by-side comparison of Kosovo and Crimea cases:
http://rt.com/news/kosovo-crimea-referendum-recognition-441/

A wonderful comment from that link:

A NATO country ilegally occupies 40% of an island called Cyprus.......UK and US say this is ok !! Half the islands population was ethnicaly cleansed.......this is ok. US has a base in the occupied sector without permission of the recognised goverment of the island........this too is ok !!