Being Russia and Russian now

[DrBeer]

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You again give selective examples.
The new Moskvich is a Chinese JAC and you are right that in Russia the plant is doing modular assembly. Yes, this is the best at the initial stage, because people need to be trained. And in Togliatti they make good cars. I'm not saying that they are ideal, but Russia has the production of its own cars.
McDonald's or Vkusno i Tochka are pests because they feed people with low-quality products, which then make people obese. If they go bankrupt, it will only get better, and restaurants will take their place, which will feed healthier food.

Why is it "selective"? After the imposition of sanctions, the Russian auto industry actually stopped (this applies to cars and private cars). Brand owners left the Russian market, stopped deliveries of units and components. And the RUSSIAN nuclear industry NON-SELECTIVELY fell to almost 0 level.

And now, under the beautiful slogans "Let's revive Moskvich, and start producing OUR CAR", they began to bring cars from China and glue nameplates on them. Or have you built a full-fledged production of their full-cycle cars? Yes, and another question - why is the cost of this model in Russia 2 times more expensive than in China in retail?


"Poppy" and "Tasty". I’ll say this about Mac - I don’t eat there, but I know that they are all over the world, and at least you won’t get poisoned in Mac
And in Russia there was a HUGE demand, which was confirmed by tax deductions and official financial indicators. I just showed that it is worth Russia to take up something from the field of "we will do better than the capitalists, and which has no analogues", and even on the basis of ALREADY WORKING, PROFITABLE business, how it turns out .. Well, you know what happens!

Ok, let's even assume that I'm selective about information. Can you give examples where Russia has made a qualitative substitution of Western sanctioned products? (drugs, technologies, electronics, software, ...) ?

[Argoo]

PS Some funny statistics
I think in business parlance this is called "liquidation of distressed assets."
- The number of prisoners in Russian prisons decreased by 33 thousand in 2022
- The number of unemployed in Russia decreased by 35 thousand in 2022

The decrease in the number of prisoners in Russia in 2022 should not surprise anyone, they were recruited by volunteers into the assault squads of the Wagner PMC and are currently storming Bakhmut. On YouTube there is a documentary film "Zone of Redemption" about this, I recommend watching it to broaden your horizons.

Yes, the defenders of Bakhmut also note that among the participants in the assault squads from Russia, there were also former female prisoners. Given Russia's serious demographic problem, which even Putin recently described as one of the country's biggest problems due to its drastic population decline, sending women to certain death for Putin's imperial ambitions is, at the very least, very strange. Or is the situation already so hopeless in Russia? I think the situation is only hopeless for Putin, who actually doesn’t give a damn about his citizens, but is there really not a single sane person in Russia who can prevent this? Although Russia is now entirely a country of the absurd.

I am glad that you are a progressive supporter of gender equality, but here you are mistaken - recruitment for Wagner volunteers was carried out only among male prisoners. In general, this is a unique and apparently successful experiment in the socialization of criminals, after the expiration of the contract, the former prisoner receives 1,200,000 rubles, the status of a war veteran with social benefits, the Wagner medal "For Courage", an extinguished criminal record and the opportunity to start life from scratch.

The fact that in Russia not only men, but also women are recruited in prisons for the war in Ukraine, there is information from both Russia and Ukraine, and this information is freely available both in the form of text and video on YouTube.
Sources:
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/02/05/the-telegraph-rossiya-verbuet-zhenschin-zaklyuchennih-dlya-lobovih-atak-v-ukraine-a32949

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/olga-romanova/32316840.html

https://24tv.ua/ru/zhenshhiny-armii-rossii-putin-otpravljaet-osuzhdennyh-shtrum_n2301204

So far, there is not much information about such cases, but the situation in the Russian army continues to deteriorate, and the fact that women are already being taken to the front from correctional colonies, even in the occupied territories (from the correctional colony of the city of Snezhnoye in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, who are sent to the territory of Russia for preparation) speaks volumes.

[be.open]

PS Some funny statistics
I think in business parlance this is called "liquidation of distressed assets."
- The number of prisoners in Russian prisons decreased by 33 thousand in 2022
- The number of unemployed in Russia decreased by 35 thousand in 2022

The decrease in the number of prisoners in Russia in 2022 should not surprise anyone, they were recruited by volunteers into the assault squads of the Wagner PMC and are currently storming Bakhmut. On YouTube there is a documentary film "Zone of Redemption" about this, I recommend watching it to broaden your horizons.

Yes, the defenders of Bakhmut also note that among the participants in the assault squads from Russia, there were also former female prisoners. Given Russia's serious demographic problem, which even Putin recently described as one of the country's biggest problems due to its drastic population decline, sending women to certain death for Putin's imperial ambitions is, at the very least, very strange. Or is the situation already so hopeless in Russia? I think the situation is only hopeless for Putin, who actually doesn’t give a damn about his citizens, but is there really not a single sane person in Russia who can prevent this? Although Russia is now entirely a country of the absurd.

I am glad that you are a progressive supporter of gender equality, but here you are mistaken - recruitment for Wagner volunteers was carried out only among male prisoners. In general, this is a unique and apparently successful experiment in the socialization of criminals, after the expiration of the contract, the former prisoner receives 1,200,000 rubles, the status of a war veteran with social benefits, the Wagner medal "For Courage", an extinguished criminal record and the opportunity to start life from scratch.

The fact that in Russia not only men, but also women are recruited in prisons for the war in Ukraine, there is information from both Russia and Ukraine, and this information is freely available both in the form of text and video on YouTube.
Sources:
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/02/05/the-telegraph-rossiya-verbuet-zhenschin-zaklyuchennih-dlya-lobovih-atak-v-ukraine-a32949

https://www.currenttime.tv/a/olga-romanova/32316840.html

https://24tv.ua/ru/zhenshhiny-armii-rossii-putin-otpravljaet-osuzhdennyh-shtrum_n2301204

So far, there is not much information about such cases, but the situation in the Russian army continues to deteriorate, and the fact that women are already being taken to the front from correctional colonies, even in the occupied territories (from the correctional colony of the city of Snezhnoye in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, who are sent to the territory of Russia for preparation) speaks volumes.

Out of curiosity, I opened your first source and saw a link to the British The Telegraph with reference to information from the Ukrainian military about the recruitment of 50 women from prison who "usually do not fight on the front line." Both the source itself and its content raise doubts - what kind of recruitment of 50 women is this, and where are they involved, if not at the front? In any case, this is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of male prisoners recruited last year into the Wagner storm troopers. However, I do not rule out that there may be individual cases of the existence of female snipers or even small groups such as female death squads, but this is not a mass phenomenon, the war does not have a female face.

And the RUSSIAN nuclear industry NON-SELECTIVELY fell to almost 0 level.

Lol dude. The Russian nuclear industry is a world leader, from which all the closest competitors (China, USA, South Korea, France, Great Britain-Germany-Netherlands) lag behind not even for years, but for decades.

For reference, the only US uranium enrichment plant for commercial use in New Mexico belongs to the European concern Urenco. The Americans have fucked up all their key developments and engineering competencies in the field of the nuclear industry.

[DrBeer]

Lol dude. The Russian nuclear industry is a world leader, from which all the closest competitors (China, USA, South Korea, France, Great Britain-Germany-Netherlands) lag behind not even for years, but for decades.

For reference, the only US uranium enrichment plant for commercial use in New Mexico belongs to the European concern Urenco. The Americans have fucked up all their key developments and engineering competencies in the field of the nuclear industry.

The melody from "Directed by Robert B. Weide" should be playing here

Five of the world's leading countries have formed an alliance to force Russia out of the nuclear fuel market. The agreement will become the basis for the COMPLETE displacement of the Russian Federation from the nuclear fuel market.
The UK, US, Canada, Japan and France have formed an alliance that will be aimed at ousting Russia from the international nuclear energy market.

Understand that the world will never be the same again. now they will fight the world terrorists for real, and not these comic sanctions that were introduced from 2014 to 2022. "Russia - forward to the past"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-17/nuclear-powers-pledge-to-push-putin-out-of-uranium-markets

They returned Russian industry to the Stone Age, collapsed oil and gas revenues ... and they will put nuclear energy there too 

[be.open]

Lol dude. The Russian nuclear industry is a world leader, from which all the closest competitors (China, USA, South Korea, France, Great Britain-Germany-Netherlands) lag behind not even for years, but for decades.

For reference, the only US uranium enrichment plant for commercial use in New Mexico belongs to the European concern Urenco. The Americans have fucked up all their key developments and engineering competencies in the field of the nuclear industry.

The melody from "Directed by Robert B. Weide" should be playing here

Five of the world's leading countries have formed an alliance to force Russia out of the nuclear fuel market. The agreement will become the basis for the COMPLETE displacement of the Russian Federation from the nuclear fuel market.
The UK, US, Canada, Japan and France have formed an alliance that will be aimed at ousting Russia from the international nuclear energy market.

Understand that the world will never be the same again. now they will fight the world terrorists for real, and not these comic sanctions that were introduced from 2014 to 2022. "Russia - forward to the past"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-17/nuclear-powers-pledge-to-push-putin-out-of-uranium-markets

They returned Russian industry to the Stone Age, collapsed oil and gas revenues ... and they will put nuclear energy there too  

All the countries you listed, taken together, have weaker positions in the commercial nuclear industry market than Russia alone. They will force themselves out of the world market with such agreements.

Right now, 20% of all electricity in the US is generated from Russian uranium. Russia can afford to stop exporting uranium to the US, but can the US afford it? They hardly forgot about the recent rolling blackouts. Japan after Fukushima is generally out of the game. The nuclear industry of France is in a deplorable state, and its influence in Africa, where they mined uranium, has been greatly undermined by the efforts of the PMC Wagner. In short, it is an alliance between the blind and the deaf, hoping to see and hear through political partnership. But in nuclear power, this is not how it works.

[zasad@]

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You again give selective examples.
The new Moskvich is a Chinese JAC and you are right that in Russia the plant is doing modular assembly. Yes, this is the best at the initial stage, because people need to be trained. And in Togliatti they make good cars. I'm not saying that they are ideal, but Russia has the production of its own cars.
McDonald's or Vkusno i Tochka are pests because they feed people with low-quality products, which then make people obese. If they go bankrupt, it will only get better, and restaurants will take their place, which will feed healthier food.

Why is it "selective"? After the imposition of sanctions, the Russian auto industry actually stopped (this applies to cars and private cars). Brand owners left the Russian market, stopped deliveries of units and components. And the RUSSIAN nuclear industry NON-SELECTIVELY fell to almost 0 level.

And now, under the beautiful slogans "Let's revive Moskvich, and start producing OUR CAR", they began to bring cars from China and glue nameplates on them. Or have you built a full-fledged production of their full-cycle cars? Yes, and another question - why is the cost of this model in Russia 2 times more expensive than in China in retail?


"Poppy" and "Tasty". I’ll say this about Mac - I don’t eat there, but I know that they are all over the world, and at least you won’t get poisoned in Mac
And in Russia there was a HUGE demand, which was confirmed by tax deductions and official financial indicators. I just showed that it is worth Russia to take up something from the field of "we will do better than the capitalists, and which has no analogues", and even on the basis of ALREADY WORKING, PROFITABLE business, how it turns out .. Well, you know what happens!

Ok, let's even assume that I'm selective about information. Can you give examples where Russia has made a qualitative substitution of Western sanctioned products? (drugs, technologies, electronics, software, ...) ?

The Russian auto industry is LADA, UAZ, KAMAZ and other brands. Has their production stopped?
European brands closed factories, and Korean and Chinese manufacturers took their place.
Look at how many large pharmaceutical companies there are in Russia, you know how to use the search.
There are basic technologies in Russia, and what is missing will be brought or bought in other countries.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

2 days ago I had an interesting call with an old Russian flatmate of mine which now lives in Russia for quite a while now.

Obviously asked him what life is like at the moment and he said it's pretty much normal, at least for him.
He is working in the tech sector with a good salary and said they miss nothing.

Even though many brands said they are not selling in Russia anymore he meant you can get whatever you want if you ask the right people and of course pay a little extra.

Still, because the political issues he often thought about leaving the country since he doesn't believe what the propaganda tells them to believe but it's not so easy. Travel restrictions have a bigger impact in life than one would imagine.

[Smartprofit]

2 days ago I had an interesting call with an old Russian flatmate of mine which now lives in Russia for quite a while now.

Obviously asked him what life is like at the moment and he said it's pretty much normal, at least for him.
He is working in the tech sector with a good salary and said they miss nothing.

Even though many brands said they are not selling in Russia anymore he meant you can get whatever you want if you ask the right people and of course pay a little extra.

Still, because the political issues he often thought about leaving the country since he doesn't believe what the propaganda tells them to believe but it's not so easy. Travel restrictions have a bigger impact in life than one would imagine.

When it comes to the future of Russia, the militarization of the country is of most concern.  People are taught to think that war is a natural state of affairs. 

For example, Evgeny Prigozhin (head of Wagner PMC) recently said that the country should become like a hedgehog bristling with missiles.  He also stated that the war would last for a very long time.  At the same time, numerous private military companies (in addition to the regular army) appear in the country.  Every major company seeks to create its own private military company.  For example, I read that the Gazprom joint-stock company has its own private military company Potok. 

The militarization of the country and many different armed formations cast doubt on the good future of the country. 

Therefore, many people are in a state of depression (they do not have a positive picture of the Future for themselves and their children). 

At the same time, most countries of the world have come to terms with the idea of ​​Russia's total isolation.  Russia needs to be deprived of technology and completely isolated from the whole world - that's their motto.

[Sithara007]

When it comes to the future of Russia, the militarization of the country is of most concern.  People are taught to think that war is a natural state of affairs.
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Concern for whom? NATO has been launching proxy wars against Russia ever since the USSR broke up in 1992. Despite all the assurances that were given, NATO continues to expand to the western borders of Russia. Given this, do you really expect them to sit back relaxed and sing nursery rhymes? They are doing all that is needed to preserve their country. Else what happened in Libya and Iraq will repeat in Russia as well. Every country has a right to defend itself (including Russia) and I don't know why you are complaining about it.

[gaston castano]

if they have seen that the republican bank will go down, then other banks might make preparations such as joining with the others so they don't go bankrupt, it is impossible for them to just sit idly by and do nothing even though they know that if they don't move they will suffer the same fate as the republican bank.

[DrBeer]

The Russian auto industry is LADA, UAZ, KAMAZ and other brands. Has their production stopped?
European brands closed factories, and Korean and Chinese manufacturers took their place.
Look at how many large pharmaceutical companies there are in Russia, you know how to use the search.
There are basic technologies in Russia, and what is missing will be brought or bought in other countries.

Thanks for your reply !
Now we will "take it apart" ..
1. Automotive industry: "The main problems in the development of the Russian automotive industry are associated with qualitative characteristics - namely, a low level of capital renewal - high material consumption - low labor productivity and - as a result - the relatively low quality of Russian cars." - these are not my words, but the assessment of Russian specialists, you can easily find it
But back to your answer. What do the brands you mentioned produce.

LADA - you can discuss LADA for a long time - but there will not be a word about cars The problem is that among the components (I don’t even take Western-made industrial lines) - there are slightly more than half Russian in them - and they are the most NON-TECHNOLOGICAL products. In addition - let's not pretend that after the imposition of sanctions - AvtoVAZ itself announced "a small modification of production cars." What is this ? This is the absence of a huge number of service systems and security systems in cars, i.e. just removed from the complexation ...
Yes, for 1980-1990, what AvtoVAZ produces does not look bad. By the way, let me ask you a question. And tell me - which model of AvtoVAZ is considered the most reliable? And in addition, another question, what platform is this model built on? Do you understand what I mean, right?


UAZ - are you serious? Tell me which model is regularly produced at the factory. What kind of model is this, and since what year has it been produced, in fact, without the slightest modernization? Yes, yes, this is she "Loaf". I learned to ride it as a child I'll just leave it here: Years of production 1965 - present Appearance-internal view- "design" elements - are easily found on the Internet. I’ll warn you right away - you’ll watch - don’t eat anything - so as not to choke on food during bouts of wild uncontrollable laughter

KAMAZ - Well, yes, more or less produces something. But - according to the stories of service centers, the auto-line is, to put it mildly, "not very reliable." And the last year - the quality falls even further. The reason is one. Stopped access to western units and assemblies.
You can type in Google "Russia auto industry problems" - and you will find a couple of million pages .
Pharmaceutics. Let us suppose. A couple of questions:
- How many of the socially significant drugs are produced in Russia?
- In an amount sufficient to cover the need?
- Are all production facilities certified?
- How many of the drugs produced are of their own development and are not generics of Western drugs?
- How many Russian medicines are sold in countries with a high level of quality control of medicines?

Sanctions just went and it began: A drug production crisis is brewing in Russia: 40% of factories could not find a replacement for imports.
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/07/26/v-rossii-zreet-krizis-proizvodstva-lekarstv-40-zavodov-ne-smogli-naiti-zamenu-importu-a22640
By the way, it also says about metallurgy
Or this: A number of critical sectors of the Russian industry, from the automotive industry to pharmaceuticals, are heavily dependent on imports - the share of foreign value added in these industries exceeds 50%. Moreover, these are mainly imports from those countries that have now joined the sanctions against Russia. It will be difficult to quickly find alternative suppliers - and it will take years to independently replace "falling out" components and materials, economists say
https://www.forbes.ru/finansy/462829-ot-avtoproma-do-farmacevtiki-naskol-ko-rossijskaa-ekonomika-zavisit-ot-importa

About technology ... Hmm .. well, you are a joker Russia has no basic technologies. There are primitive and obsolete. And no one will bring and Russia will not buy anywhere. Russia is an outcast country! Sanctions, and "friends" are even more backward
Sorry, but you live there, so you can continue to engage in self-hypnosis ....

[zasad@]

The Russian auto industry is LADA, UAZ, KAMAZ and other brands. Has their production stopped?
European brands closed factories, and Korean and Chinese manufacturers took their place.
Look at how many large pharmaceutical companies there are in Russia, you know how to use the search.
There are basic technologies in Russia, and what is missing will be brought or bought in other countries.

Thanks for your reply !
Now we will "take it apart" ..
1. Automotive industry: "The main problems in the development of the Russian automotive industry are associated with qualitative characteristics - namely, a low level of capital renewal - high material consumption - low labor productivity and - as a result - the relatively low quality of Russian cars." - these are not my words, but the assessment of Russian specialists, you can easily find it
But back to your answer. What do the brands you mentioned produce.

LADA - you can discuss LADA for a long time - but there will not be a word about cars The problem is that among the components (I don’t even take Western-made industrial lines) - there are slightly more than half Russian in them - and they are the most NON-TECHNOLOGICAL products. In addition - let's not pretend that after the imposition of sanctions - AvtoVAZ itself announced "a small modification of production cars." What is this ? This is the absence of a huge number of service systems and security systems in cars, i.e. just removed from the complexation ...
Yes, for 1980-1990, what AvtoVAZ produces does not look bad. By the way, let me ask you a question. And tell me - which model of AvtoVAZ is considered the most reliable? And in addition, another question, what platform is this model built on? Do you understand what I mean, right?


UAZ - are you serious? Tell me which model is regularly produced at the factory. What kind of model is this, and since what year has it been produced, in fact, without the slightest modernization? Yes, yes, this is she "Loaf". I learned to ride it as a child I'll just leave it here: Years of production 1965 - present Appearance-internal view- "design" elements - are easily found on the Internet. I’ll warn you right away - you’ll watch - don’t eat anything - so as not to choke on food during bouts of wild uncontrollable laughter

KAMAZ - Well, yes, more or less produces something. But - according to the stories of service centers, the auto-line is, to put it mildly, "not very reliable." And the last year - the quality falls even further. The reason is one. Stopped access to western units and assemblies.
You can type in Google "Russia auto industry problems" - and you will find a couple of million pages .
Pharmaceutics. Let us suppose. A couple of questions:
- How many of the socially significant drugs are produced in Russia?
- In an amount sufficient to cover the need?
- Are all production facilities certified?
- How many of the drugs produced are of their own development and are not generics of Western drugs?
- How many Russian medicines are sold in countries with a high level of quality control of medicines?

Sanctions just went and it began: A drug production crisis is brewing in Russia: 40% of factories could not find a replacement for imports.
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/07/26/v-rossii-zreet-krizis-proizvodstva-lekarstv-40-zavodov-ne-smogli-naiti-zamenu-importu-a22640
By the way, it also says about metallurgy
Or this: A number of critical sectors of the Russian industry, from the automotive industry to pharmaceuticals, are heavily dependent on imports - the share of foreign value added in these industries exceeds 50%. Moreover, these are mainly imports from those countries that have now joined the sanctions against Russia. It will be difficult to quickly find alternative suppliers - and it will take years to independently replace "falling out" components and materials, economists say
https://www.forbes.ru/finansy/462829-ot-avtoproma-do-farmacevtiki-naskol-ko-rossijskaa-ekonomika-zavisit-ot-importa

About technology ... Hmm .. well, you are a joker Russia has no basic technologies. There are primitive and obsolete. And no one will bring and Russia will not buy anywhere. Russia is an outcast country! Sanctions, and "friends" are even more backward
Sorry, but you live there, so you can continue to engage in self-hypnosis ....

In the production of LADA cars, imported European components were used, and now they are being replaced by Chinese ones.
UAZ. Look at what cars they produce on their own. https://www.uaz.ru/
There are a lot of them in the countryside.
No need to laugh at these cars
https://www.uaz.ru/cars/classic
I had one and it is better in terms of cross-country ability of my Korean SUV. This car does not need a new design, like any modification to the original AK 47.

I talked with KAMAZ employees, almost everything there is Russian. The German engine will again be replaced by a Russian one.
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Do NOT talk nonsense about self-hypnosis. There is no shortage of medicines and electronics in Russia. Your words are reminiscent of the same nonsense as "Europe will freeze without Russian gas"

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I can also give a few links so that you understand who the main clowns are.
https://northafricapost.com/65780-north-african-countries-shun-western-sanctions-on-russian-oil-products-wsj.html

[Argoo]

When it comes to the future of Russia, the militarization of the country is of most concern.  People are taught to think that war is a natural state of affairs.
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Concern for whom? NATO has been launching proxy wars against Russia ever since the USSR broke up in 1992. Despite all the assurances that were given, NATO continues to expand to the western borders of Russia. Given this, do you really expect them to sit back relaxed and sing nursery rhymes? They are doing all that is needed to preserve their country. Else what happened in Libya and Iraq will repeat in Russia as well. Every country has a right to defend itself (including Russia) and I don't know why you are complaining about it.

Is Russia trying to defend itself by regularly attacking its neighbors and artificially creating pro-Russian territories there? Now Russia is waging a classic war of conquest in Ukraine. Until now, Russia has not been able to finally decide on the reasons for the attack on Ukraine and is constantly changing them, because all of them do not withstand any criticism. Before the Russian attack in 2014, it had a naval base on the territory of Ukraine, a normal attitude towards everything Russian, including the Russian language on its territory, and now everything Russian is purposefully removed from Ukraine so that there is not even a mention of Russia anywhere. Ukrainians, including even the eastern predominantly Russian-speaking population, are now trying to speak Ukrainian themselves in order to forget about the Russian nightmare that Russia brought to the territory of Ukraine.

NATO is expanding and moving closer to Russia's borders solely because of Russia's aggressive foreign policy. After all, this is the result of the independent choice of a specific country that decides to join this alliance, and not the leadership of NATO. Until 2014, the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO looked very distant and vague, and now there is talk of its admission even this year, despite the hostilities. Sweden and Finland did not plan to join NATO at all, and now Finland is already in NATO, and Sweden still needs to get the consent of only two countries of this bloc.

[DrBeer]

Concern for whom? NATO has been launching proxy wars against Russia ever since the USSR broke up in 1992. Despite all the assurances that were given, NATO continues to expand to the western borders of Russia. Given this, do you really expect them to sit back relaxed and sing nursery rhymes? They are doing all that is needed to preserve their country. Else what happened in Libya and Iraq will repeat in Russia as well. Every country has a right to defend itself (including Russia) and I don't know why you are complaining about it.

An excellent example is that there are weak brains everywhere for propaganda.

Few facts. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, and then the default of Russia, the United States and NATO had the opportunity to either simply wipe the USSR / Russia off the face of the earth, or simply BUY it all. Yes, yes, at the time of the default, all the more or less significant assets of Russia cost very little, and in reality it could all be bought. The question is - if they always dreamed of destroying it - why didn’t they take advantage and let it develop?
You can still go back to history, and you will be very surprised, but it is the United States that has saved Russia from death and collapse more than once.
- 1998 Humanitarian aid to Russia, millions of tons of "bush legs" and other food. Because the "great country" simply could not produce food. Russia was then also saved by Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, .... Gratitude - you are watching.
- 1941-1945 - Lend-Lease for billions of dollars, of which the USSR barely spit out 10%, and then after decades. At first, he crawled on his knees to ask, and then tried to "throw"
-1921-1923 years. American Relief Administration, ARA - is known for its participation in helping Soviet Russia eliminate the famine of 1921-1923. Free of charge, millions of pounds of food.
-1891-1892 - Global famine in the European part of Muscovy. In the United States, the so-called "Hunger Fleet" was formed - 5 huge ships loaded with wheat and corn flour, grain, vegetables, fruits, medicines and clothing. The first ship "Indiana" arrived in Russia in March 1892 and brought 1900 tons of food. And the US government also provided financial assistance to some Russian provinces.

Do you really believe in the fairy tale that NATO is for ATTACK on Russia and not for PROTECTION from the country of an international terrorist?

[Wildwest]

In our opinion the current state of the Russian economy has indeed declined because no country is protesting that their economy is running well, so there are not only a few problems with the Russian economy at the moment, but they can survive because they have prepared everything that will have a negative impact on the economy. them, then developing countries like Russia the current economic decline has not had a bad impact on them, they only feel a slight difference before the war, but they continue to develop new technologies even though their country is on the battlefield, indeed the Russian president has a difficult mission to in enemy predictions.

[zasad@]

Concern for whom? NATO has been launching proxy wars against Russia ever since the USSR broke up in 1992. Despite all the assurances that were given, NATO continues to expand to the western borders of Russia. Given this, do you really expect them to sit back relaxed and sing nursery rhymes? They are doing all that is needed to preserve their country. Else what happened in Libya and Iraq will repeat in Russia as well. Every country has a right to defend itself (including Russia) and I don't know why you are complaining about it.

An excellent example is that there are weak brains everywhere for propaganda.

Few facts. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, and then the default of Russia, the United States and NATO had the opportunity to either simply wipe the USSR / Russia off the face of the earth, or simply BUY it all. Yes, yes, at the time of the default, all the more or less significant assets of Russia cost very little, and in reality it could all be bought. The question is - if they always dreamed of destroying it - why didn’t they take advantage and let it develop?
You can still go back to history, and you will be very surprised, but it is the United States that has saved Russia from death and collapse more than once.
- 1998 Humanitarian aid to Russia, millions of tons of "bush legs" and other food. Because the "great country" simply could not produce food. Russia was then also saved by Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, .... Gratitude - you are watching.
- 1941-1945 - Lend-Lease for billions of dollars, of which the USSR barely spit out 10%, and then after decades. At first, he crawled on his knees to ask, and then tried to "throw"
-1921-1923 years. American Relief Administration, ARA - is known for its participation in helping Soviet Russia eliminate the famine of 1921-1923. Free of charge, millions of pounds of food.
-1891-1892 - Global famine in the European part of Muscovy. In the United States, the so-called "Hunger Fleet" was formed - 5 huge ships loaded with wheat and corn flour, grain, vegetables, fruits, medicines and clothing. The first ship "Indiana" arrived in Russia in March 1892 and brought 1900 tons of food. And the US government also provided financial assistance to some Russian provinces.

Do you really believe in the fairy tale that NATO is for ATTACK on Russia and not for PROTECTION from the country of an international terrorist?

Russia is a terrorist?
Are you not familiar with this information?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441385
Soon your propaganda will tell you that Russia started the Great Patriotic War and Russia attacked Germany. How the Americans told the Japanese that it was Russia that bombed their cities with atomic bombs.

[Jamala]

Do you know if people outside are less open to doing business with you? I know I worked with several freelancers before who had to close their accounts on several platforms. Crypto-accepting people are probably less affected, they still have the means to transact, but I'm understanding from anecdotal evidence that clients are less willing to work with them (without actually saying it's because they're Russian).

If there is an effect, there is an impact on revenue coming from outside.

A familiar lady made beautiful handmade dolls, which were willingly bought by collectors from France, it seems that now she has stopped doing this. Now she is engaged in interior design, she is doing well.

Several familiar programmers working remotely for Western companies were forced to relocate with their families after the start of a special operation in Ukraine - to Georgia, Turkey, Italy and Canada. Hope they are doing well too.

Freelancers and small businesses, of course, were hit harder than others by the sanctions, just as a year earlier they also suffered from the lockdown and the pandemic. I think this is normal, even without sanctions and a pandemic, they usually suffer the most, this is the way.

How do you feel about recruiters walking around town handing out conscription notes? Not long ago there was an article that they're planning to send summons through email and mobile phones and if you ignore them you'll get your driving license suspended and won't be able to get a loan.
On one hand Russians are doing fine because they're alive, have a place to live, food in stores, Internet, but on the other a lot of products disappeared from stores, they don't have enough paper to print labels and car parts for EU and US made cars. Russians seem to be fine because they used to drive Ladas and will probably drive them 10 years from now, but all is not as good as they're painting it.

1. I don't care, I haven't seen any of them. I heard something similar happened last fall in big cities, in my city there was nothing like that. Summons to the military commissariat were mainly sent through the personnel departments of large enterprises.
2. Nothing is missing, there is no shortage of goods in any direction. It’s just that some goods have become more expensive and you have to wait a bit, but in general, the system of parallel imports works well, through Turkey or the UAE.

The only weapon the West and NATO majorly have against Russia is sanctions. Nothing more but Russia has a big chest and a corresponding spine for these gimmicks, and will surely live through these sanctions and more. Gradually, the truth is coming on who really is the problem.

[umbara ardian]

The sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russian banks, oligarchs, and technology imports have not had a significant impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary Russians. This is because the sanctions have been targeted at specific individuals and sectors, rather than the broader population.

However, the sanctions have had a broader impact on the Russian economy as a whole. They have limited the ability of Russian companies to access international financial markets and technology, which has slowed down economic growth and led to inflation.

[iv4n]

What a headline... how many of us felt that way? Being "something" at the wrong time in the wrong place? The list is endless...

Well, I don't care where someone is from as long as they are honest and fair. I don't wish to complicate my point, who is older enough knows that every country in this world has its good and bad sides. Nothing happens just like that, we are all responsible in "some or many ways" for everything that happens around us.

It's easy to spread hate, and all the countries are buying more weapons for what? To spread more hate and to make us kill each other? For what? Some imaginary lines, religions, and in the end nationalities? I don't believe in that, there are good and bad people around the world, it's all that matters. We come from different cultures, and we have different languages, but in the end, we are all people...

[zasad@]

What a headline... how many of us felt that way? Being "something" at the wrong time in the wrong place? The list is endless...

Well, I don't care where someone is from as long as they are honest and fair. I don't wish to complicate my point, who is older enough knows that every country in this world has its good and bad sides. Nothing happens just like that, we are all responsible in "some or many ways" for everything that happens around us.

It's easy to spread hate, and all the countries are buying more weapons for what? To spread more hate and to make us kill each other? For what? Some imaginary lines, religions, and in the end nationalities? I don't believe in that, there are good and bad people around the world, it's all that matters. We come from different cultures, and we have different languages, but in the end, we are all people...

Not a bad headline, finally European and American leaders showed their true colors. Sanctions failed, they don't work.
My friends live in Europe now they are afraid. They moved there more than 5 years ago, they have legal income and official salary. But they are afraid to buy real estate there and keep a lot of money in banks. Thanks to this, they learned what cryptocurrencies are Europeans are wary of hiring Russians to work in Europe, if the company has Russian founders, then in Europe they do not work with this company. Russians have a lot of problems in Europe now, although they have been living there for 5 and 10 years, but they have not changed their citizenship. This is the true face of European democracy. Even in America there are no such problems.
I communicate with Russian IT people. A lot of people left Europe for other countries because they don't want to put up with this shit.