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"Swedish defence minister calls Russian violation of airspace 'unacceptable', followed by accepting it."

There are counter claims that that building was being used for recruitment for the Azov battalion.

The Soviet Union lasted for some 70 years, not everything was bad. For instance I quite like their cinema and science fiction children shows. My point being, someone raised under the Soviet Union would still be able to find a few things to look back with nostalgia.

How is that a reliable source at all, it's just a piece of text backed by a company that wants to sell military communication equipment.

Everything will be back to normal in 4-8 years after a cease fire, though. So sanctions just hurt the most vulnerable of a 150m people country. Congratulations. That will surely prevent future wars like seen with the treaty of Versailles...

They were coopted for political interests over a decade ago, and so any organic interest moved on. Now they are used as boogyman, as a honey pot or as a cover for cyberwarfare by the "good guys".

Probably just blocked outside traffic, specially from EU, US and Japan.

I get it's like the freezing of ~40% of Russia's foreign reserves the US announced. So still the property of their owners - not seized - but cannot be moved either.

Would you volunteer to go?

I think the best advice would be to surrender and avoid pointless loss of life. You only have one life, is it really worth throwing away so your elite rules instead of your neighbors' elite?

I do not believe you know any Russians at all, from my experience.

What a ridiculous take. Yes the Russian govmt censors a lot of things. The west also does it. And more than plain censoring, which happens mostly in China, what happens the most is just building a narrative: only show what you need to be shown, diminish opposing views, augment yours, shape the narrative by building a fake opposition. These are basic strategies done since before world war 2.

The russians by and large know very well not to trust the government. But who will work best in their interest instead, will NATO? Would the US trust Europe to fix their two-party "democracy" and lack of healthcare?

Besides what another commentator already said, I'd also include China. Russia and China, despite the apparently good relations right now, have actively disputed regions that the Chinese believe were stolen from them on one of the unequal treaties.

It should be good news for everyone unless Russia makes a full-scale invasion (which seem very unlikely), no? By everyone I mean every average, civilian person. All of them should want peace, no matter if their passport says Ukraine or "X Republic of the Russian Federation".

I'm not sure what dashed lines are those. Are they the ones that include Mariupol in the south of Donetsk? Thank you

That's a quite good read. I'd like an annotated version with fact checking and commentary.

Energy prices are near all time highs, Russia's finances should be great.

That is quite some time away.

No? It seems a recipe for a perfect government. Whenever X% of the population wants that much to throw down the government, that's probably a good time for a remodel.

Might not be as effective as a dictatorship or a oligarchy, sure, must a much better government to live under.

There is a very simple solution, the government lifts the restrictions and resigns. New elections are held and then the people decide if they want a new government that will punish protesters or not.

After GoFundMe's cut of course.

What doesn't have a social network, these days?

Consumers do not want to wear glasses.

It is a common latin expression. Maybe more common in romance language countries.

These are the stories the RWM doesn't cover as it does not fit their narrative.

That's just ridiculous.

Censor proof, private, transactions.

I completely agree. To me the idea that the people in positions of power or authority are principled and really concerned about misinformation - about covid or anything else - is laughable. And that goes for the managers at Spotify, media personalities, celebrities of any kind, etc.

In my country the state maintains an alternative to email, where you can receive messages from anything government related, plus any business that registers. It's opt-in only, you cannot receive spam or be subscribed to entities against your will, and of course if you lose access you can just go down to the nearest citizen's office and get it sorted. You can also pay bills through it.

It is a nice solution but unfortunately everyone already has to have email accounts, so it becomes just yet another account to check, which is not attractive.

To the surprise of no one who ever paid attention.

Yes, they made their decision together. They could've instead shared managing the house and raising their children.