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Started by Syt, August 01, 2012, 12:01:36 AM

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Tonitrus

#2310
February 09, 2016, 08:38:29 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 09, 2016, 04:56:50 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 09, 2016, 12:26:21 PM
Needs more scantily-clad cheerleaders.

What do 20 year old soldiers want to watch?  Maybe a guy singing opera and some dudes preforming ballet?  No wonder they lost the cold war.

Based on the data from another thread...anal pr0n.

DGuller

#2311
February 09, 2016, 08:57:08 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 08, 2016, 08:47:51 PM
Quote from: citizen k on February 08, 2016, 06:51:42 PM
Russian "USO" in Latakia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2mMbNMpw8

They look really bored.  I'm sure that's what the soldiers really wanted to see, a guy in a big hat sing, men and women in ties dancing, and the guy from Wheel of Fortune.
Russians value culture very highly.  They entertain you with stuff that should entertain you, not stuff that will entertain you.

Liep

#2312
February 10, 2016, 04:42:37 AM
Quote from: DGuller on February 09, 2016, 08:57:08 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 08, 2016, 08:47:51 PM
Quote from: citizen k on February 08, 2016, 06:51:42 PM
Russian "USO" in Latakia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2mMbNMpw8

They look really bored.  I'm sure that's what the soldiers really wanted to see, a guy in a big hat sing, men and women in ties dancing, and the guy from Wheel of Fortune.
Russians value culture very highly.  They entertain you with stuff that should entertain you, not stuff that will entertain you.

Also that clip is from RT, who's to say the entertainment didn't change when they turned the cameras off.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

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DGuller

#2313
February 10, 2016, 09:44:00 AM
Quote from: Liep on February 10, 2016, 04:42:37 AM
Also that clip is from RT, who's to say the entertainment didn't change when they turned the cameras off.
:yes: They probably had a wine tasting event afterwards.

Razgovory

#2314
February 10, 2016, 09:49:46 AM
"God, I hope the entertainment ends soon.  Then I can get back to filling out lost equipment forms".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

#2315
February 10, 2016, 11:13:45 AM
Quote from: DGuller on February 09, 2016, 08:57:08 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 08, 2016, 08:47:51 PM
Quote from: citizen k on February 08, 2016, 06:51:42 PM
Russian "USO" in Latakia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2mMbNMpw8

They look really bored.  I'm sure that's what the soldiers really wanted to see, a guy in a big hat sing, men and women in ties dancing, and the guy from Wheel of Fortune.
Russians value culture very highly.  They entertain you with stuff that should entertain you, not stuff that will entertain you.

Soo much better than Ann-Margret and Bob Hope. :yes:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#2316
February 27, 2016, 12:24:31 PM
:o

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-kadyrov-time-step-down-chechnya/27577524.html

QuoteKadyrov Says He's Ready To Step Down

Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is ready to resign.

In an interview with the Kremlin-allied NTV television, Kadyrov said "my time has passed."

Kadyrov's current term of office is due to end in early April.

"There are lots of successors on our team. We've got very good specialists," Kadyrov added in the interview that aired on February 27, first in Russia's Far East.

The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.

Many in the opposition accuse Kadyrov of playing a role in Nemtsov's murder.

"Nemtsov did not bother me at all, in fact. That's because he is not my level," Kadyrov told NTV.

"The nation's leadership needs to find another person so that my name isn't used against my people," Kadyrov added.

The five suspects arrested for the crime all have ties to Chechnya and the North Caucasus.

"I know that, after the killing of Boris Nemtsov, the relationships between the federal government and Chechnya's leadership have worsened considerably," Dmitry Gudkov, one of only a handful of opposition lawmakers left in the State Duma, told RFE/RL's Russian Service on February 27.

"This explains Ramzan Kadyrov's recent hysteria toward the opposition," Gudkov added.

Earlier this week, opposition leader Ilya Yashin released a report accusing Kadyrov of involvement in Nemtsov's killing and demanding his resignation.

Kadyrov was nominated for the Chechen presidency by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007 and approved almost without any objections by the Chechen parliament.

Putin has relied on Kadyrov to stabilize Chechnya after two separatist wars, making him effectively immune from federal controls.
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DGuller

#2317
February 27, 2016, 06:03:54 PM
Ivan Grozny stepped down as well.  Then boyars, fearful that there will be no one to arbitrarily execute them, begged for him to come back, on the condition that he'll execute plenty of them and often.  Maybe that's Kadyrov's plan as well?

Razgovory

#2318
February 27, 2016, 06:50:42 PM
Maybe he feels like getting out with his loot while the getting is good.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

#2319
February 27, 2016, 06:58:27 PM
Probably wants to devote more time to his instagram account.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas

#2320
February 28, 2016, 04:27:56 AM
I think he was told by Putin that he is getting too uppity and due to his good services 'til now, is given the choice to leave with dignity, and outside of a coffin.

The Brain

#2321
February 28, 2016, 04:45:30 AM
Quote from: Tamas on February 28, 2016, 04:27:56 AM
I think he was told by Putin that he is getting too uppity and due to his good services 'til now, is given the choice to leave with dignity, and outside of a coffin.

Eastern European conspiracy theorizing at its finest. :rolleyes:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Duque de Bragança

#2322
February 28, 2016, 07:49:14 AM
Quote from: DGuller on February 27, 2016, 06:03:54 PM
Ivan Grozny stepped down as well.  Then boyars, fearful that there will be no one to arbitrarily execute them, begged for him to come back, on the condition that he'll execute plenty of them and often.  Maybe that's Kadyrov's plan as well?

My thoughts exactly!  :o

Phillip V

#2323
July 27, 2016, 03:02:52 PM
Trump to look at recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, lifting sanctions

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-crimea-sanctions-russia-226292

derspiess

#2324
July 27, 2016, 03:03:50 PM
:yuk:
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall
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