The State of Affairs in Russia

[Liep]

Holy shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xai7ttzbx5M&app=desktop

What a teaser for the press conference.

[Liep]

Normalisation is unavoidable!

[Martinus]

As soon as the Dual Monarchy's authority waned following the panicky retreat from Italy in 1918, the first recorded incident was Slovenians pogroming local Jews. It is the thing you do when you are Eastern-European and there is no police to stop you.

FYPFY

[Liep]

"I don't think you can call the current situation a crisis"

[Monoriu]

Holy shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xai7ttzbx5M&app=desktop

What a teaser for the press conference.

I don't understand a single word about the video.  What is it?  Putin is going to hold a press conference on what to do with the crisis, and this is a...teaser for his press conference? 

[Liep]

Holy shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xai7ttzbx5M&app=desktop

What a teaser for the press conference.

I don't understand a single word about the video.  What is it?  Putin is going to hold a press conference on what to do with the crisis, and this is a...teaser for his press conference? 

It's a yearly conference, so not specifically about the crisis, but that is the teaser run on tv for it.

[celedhring]

Rossiya Fuck Yeah.

[Jacob]

So... the teaser is trying to say: "the world is going to shit, terrorists everywhere, disaster, war, social unrest - but Russia had some cool olympics and has some badass looking military toys and here are some pictures of some space stuff. Russia got this shit under control!"

Something like that?

[Martinus]

So... the teaser is trying to say: "the world is going to shit, terrorists everywhere, disaster, war, social unrest - but Russia had some cool olympics and has some badass looking military toys and here are some pictures of some space stuff. Russia got this shit under control!"

Something like that?

Pretty much. I guess they played too much Civ: Beyond Earth.

By the way - does anyone know if this teaser is made by some tv station or it is official Russian government thing? Because the former, while over the top, would not be too far out of the Western media shit - now, the latter...

[Queequeg]

As soon as the Dual Monarchy's authority waned following the panicky retreat from Italy in 1918, the first recorded incident was Slovenians pogroming local Jews. It is the thing you do when you are Eastern-European and there is no police to stop you.

FYPFY

I don't think Slovenia counts as Eastern Europe, at least not in 1918. It's far from the ass end of the dual monarchy.

[Syt]

http://rt.com/news/215523-crisis-payment-bear-chain/

Western nations want to chain 'the Russian bear' - Putin

Western nations want to chain "the Russian bear," pull out its teeth and ultimately have it stuffed, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. He said anti-Russian sanctions are the cost of being an independent nation.

Putin used the vivid metaphor of a "chained bear" during his annual Q&A session with the media in Moscow in response to a question about whether he believed that the troubles of the Russian economy were payback for the reunification with Crimea.

"It's not payback for Crimea. It's the cost of our natural desire to preserve Russia as a nation, a civilization and a state," Putin said.

The president said that even if "the Russian bear" started "sitting tight... and eating berries and honey," this would not stop pressure being applied against the country.

"They won't leave us alone. They will always seek to chain us. And once we are chain, they'll rip out our teeth and claws. Our nuclear deterrence, speaking in present-day terms," Putin said.

"As soon as this [chaining the bear] happens, nobody will need it anymore. They'll stuff it. And start to put their hands on his Taiga [Siberian forest belt] after it. We've heard statements from Western officials that Russia's owning Siberia was not fair," he exclaimed.

"Stealing Texas from Mexico – was that fair? And us having control over our own land is not fair. We should hand it out!"

The West had an anti-Russian stance long before the current crisis started, Putin said. The evidence is there, he said, ranging from"direct support of terrorism in the North Caucasus," to the expansion of NATO and the creation of its anti-ballistic missile system in Eastern Europe, and the way the western media covered the Olympic Games in Sochi, Putin said.

[CountDeMoney]

"As soon as this [chaining the bear] happens, nobody will need it anymore. They'll stuff it.

Bear rape?

[Jacob]

It would be an unbearable situation for Russia.

[Martinus]

Russia is like this retarded kid at school who keeps starting fights. You alternate between annoyance and pity with them.

[KRonn]

Chain the Russkies - is it because Putin and his crowd are too barbearic??