The State of Affairs in Russia

[derspiess]

It's not a duma! 

It was an obvious joke, Tim.  Contain yourself.

[The Minsky Moment]

That 'flag for straights' looks like the Protect and Survive logo.

Except that the boy is so much more fabulous.
As the shirtless Putin pictures prove, it's hard to look more gay than when Russians try to show how straight they are.

[Admiral Yi]

It was an obvious joke, Tim.  Contain yourself.

[jimmy olsen]

Lisovenko also added that the greater number of children on the Russian flag was meant to demonstrate the difference in Russian traditions.

Tradition of inflating numbers?

Fertility rate   1.75 children born/woman (2014)

That's a bit of a rebound from their post-soviet low, isn't it?

[DGuller]

Lisovenko also added that the greater number of children on the Russian flag was meant to demonstrate the difference in Russian traditions.

Tradition of inflating numbers?

Fertility rate   1.75 children born/woman (2014)

That's a bit of a rebound from their post-soviet low, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.    It was down to 1.2 at some point.

[Solmyr]

Is 3 a greater number of children?

It is greater then 2 yet less than 4.

5 is right out.

[Syt]

As expected, Russia has vetoed a UN resolution that condemns the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica as genocide.

[Martinus]

It's only 1.75 kid per woman because, due to vodka and radiation, most women give birth to multi-headed babies.

[Syt]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/poll-shows-russian-attitudes-to-gay-people-are-worse-than-decade-ago/525429.html

Poll Shows Russian Attitudes to Gay People Are Worse Than Decade Ago

Russian intolerance of gay people and same-sex marriages has grown significantly in the last decade, state-run pollster VTsIOM said Friday.

Eighty percent of Russians said they were against same-sex marriages, as opposed to 59 percent in 2005, the pollster found.

The number of those who think gay people should be allowed to get married has decreased from 14 percent in 2005 to 8 percent in 2015. According to the poll, only 3 percent of respondents said LGBT people should be able to bring up children. Another 3 percent supported the idea of marriage, but said children should not be brought up in such households.

The number of people who consider gay people dangerous and said they should be "isolated from society" has also grown significantly since 2004, from 12 to 20 percent, the poll shows.

The Russian government adopted a law in 2013 banning the promotion of "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors. Since then, human rights activists say the number of violent homophobic attacks in the country has increased.

Twenty-two percent of respondents said they didn't care about other people's sexual preferences, compared to 24 percent in 2004, and another 15 percent said homosexuals were "normal people," adding, however, that they wouldn't socialize with them.

A small decrease was recorded in the number of people who think being gay is either a medical or social disease, from 36 percent in 2004 to 35 percent in 2015.

Almost half of Russians — 41 percent — said the authorities should persecute people with "untraditional sexual preferences" in order to "exterminate the phenomenon." Thirty-two percent said the authorities shouldn't care at all, and only 12 percent agreed that the government should acknowledge gay rights and protect the LGBT community from discrimination.

"In this aspect Russia is about twice as conservative as even China," Alexei Firsov, VTsIOM's communications director, was cited as saying Friday on the pollster's website.

"It's interesting that we [Russia] are swimming against the current, strengthening, despite global trends, intolerance toward homosexual relationships. This indicator might serve as a parameter of national identification," he said.

The VTsIOM poll was carried out on April 11-12 and July 4-5 among 1,600 respondents in 46 Russian regions. The margin of error was no greater than 3.5 percent, the pollster said.

[DGuller]

It's not surprising.  Intolerance and fascism reinforces each other.  Fascists gain power by appealing to intolerance, and they fan the flames of intolerance to further entrench it.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

We go backwards, not forwards! And always twirling towards oppression!

[celedhring]

"It's interesting that we [Russia] are swimming against the current, strengthening, despite global trends, intolerance toward homosexual relationships. This indicator might serve as a parameter of national identification," he said.

Good to see them build a national identity on such nice traits.

[Valmy]

Well they have worked hard to demonize the west and identify tolerance of LGBT with being western so...

Really just a short jump to declaring anybody gay a CIA plant.

[Syt]

http://rt.com/news/273391-us-nuclear-bomb-europe/

US B61-12 nuclear bomb test may be drilling use in Europe - Moscow

The recent test of the US В61-12 nuclear bomb confirms Washington's plans to maintain nuclear weapons in Europe that are capable of reaching Russia, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Monday.

Antonov slammed the US nuclear bomb test as "irresponsible" and "openly provocative."

"It turns out that under the disguise of a notorious and invented threat coming from the Russian side, the United States was not only increasing the military potential and activity of NATO member states, but was upgrading its nuclear potential as well," he said.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

The evil Amerikkkans, how dare they upgrade their nuclear arsenal? Only Russia is allowed to do so:

http://tass.ru/en/russia/801022

Russian nuclear forces to get 40 new intercontinental missiles this year — Putin

[Valmy]

If we have nuclear weapons stationed in Europe I sure hope they are capable of hitting targets beyond Poland.