Point of view. A look from the other side.

I shared my opinion. Show me when I'm wrong. With examples and explanations.

 

They write that in St. Petersburg today an explosive device was found and rendered harmless in the apartment building. Three suspects were detained. Details about the type and power of the bomb yet.

 

Another look at the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate



I look and I can not understand why Russia has one and a half times less prisoners per capita, but the country is not free. And the United States, where there are 2.2 million prisoners in prisons, more than in China - is it an example of freedom?

...

Oh yes. Still in Russia there is no death penalty. And they do not give more than one life imprisonment. And the biggest fixed term of imprisonment is 25 years.

 

Sakhalin fishermen came to fishing

 

You can not imagine how the USSR worshiped America in the 1980s and 1990s. The Iron Curtain played against the USSR. In the conditions of the information deficit, whole generations grew up, who worshiped the West. After the collapse of the USSR, the world had a chance to become truly friendly. But in the 1990's everything rolled off the slope. For me personally, the first big disappointment in American politics (it was politics, I never confuse the notion of the country and the state, ordinary people and politicians) was an attack on Yugoslavia. And then, from year to year, everything became worse.

What is interesting is that we are still in Russia, still, absorb the Western culture, and not isolated. We watch Western films, listen to Western music, read Western writers, use Western software and Western computer games. We soak for so long that generations have grown up, which stereotype image of Russian is perceived in the way the West does - vodka, a hat with ear flaps, collapsing space stations ... And still something does not work out in the relationship

 

I was very saddened by the attack in St. Petersburg - it is a beautiful city filled with many treasures. I hope it is the last of that kind the city has to endure.

Only McCain and the Progs seem to be constantly angling for war. I liked what Trump suggested -- that Russia and America combined would easily snuff out radical Islam. Anyone who looks at a map can see that Russia has QUITE a southern border to protect - with some of the most dangerous and unpredictable countries. It is only natural, I think, that the Russians would want to exert some control on the makeup of those governments. Anyone who cannot allow the Russians that point are not fair-minded people.

I would encourage people to read this article by Christopher Caldwell. It is long, but it brings up many fine points worth consideration.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/think-vladimir-putin/

 

For a number of reasons, I stopped writing in this topic (and indeed this forum) and has not replenished it for a long time. But recently at the forum a Russian-speaking Jew wrote a huge material on the topic of what he sees as the difference between Russian culture and the West, looking from his third party. And I must note that he very correctly noticed a number of key differences. He wrote a lot, drinking beer, using a large number of idioms and slang, so through an electronic translator to translate all the text will be unrealistic. But I can not ignore this text. After reading it, I hope it will be understandable why a real Russian can not pass by this? I will try to translate the text at least in small fragments, stretching the process for a long time. This friend, of course, speaks English and could write the same thing much better than my electronic translation, but I do not think he could write the same thing and just for the initially Western reader, and even out of context

So, the first fragment of the translation.

This is the continuation of the correspondence at the forum, which resulted in what I publish. Accordingly, the quotes of other participants here will also come across. I design them in an e-mail style, with the sign ">"

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> I've been waiting for this for so many years-you know from the forum, and have thought so many years and have seen so many things. And I came to the conclusion that for us, a war like for any fanatics - it is from the other world. For some facets of material meanings. I'm afraid to speak genetically or somehow, but our attitude is never the same as the attitude of the Western world towards war.

You now stepped on my very pebble in the shoe, and I have a couple of bottles of beer. So now I get out of my philosophy. But you stay there.

Archaic - this is exactly the word that I have not come from the head for many years. You [Russians] are very, very archaic. And it is in terms of such archaic mysticism, of which you are now speaking. You are mystics and fatalists. You believe that the legitimacy of something is outside of you, somewhere outside. You still live between totem and taboo, like the ancient tribes. A miracle is just that you are still in this form. By and large, the whole so-called mysterious Russian soul from this mysticism and the archaic is composed, and it causes astonishment among those who observe it from the side. To a rational mind this behavior does sometimes seem mysterious, because in the West, few people today live in such a mental system, which is built between totems and taboos.

In principle, this is not so bad. This gives quite specific chips in terms of high art. You are absolutely unbeatable in terms of reflexion, just absolute champions. No one can reflex like you. The same bigotry is sometimes very useful, and not only in war, but in other things. Sometimes.

But this also creates an obstacle to other things. You do not understand the West as he understands himself, and this is one of the biggest shortcomings. You really are not at all like that. You are talking about attitudes toward war, I have an example. For example, the Russians could never have made such a film as "The Master of the Seas" ["Master and Commander"? I have not seen this movie, so I'm not sure that it's about him. And the names of films in the translation from language to language often change very much — Balancer], as it was done in the West. In your battle scenes, some pathetics, like "for the Motherland", "brothers", reflections, tragic or sad music, a teardrop of a child and other snot, would surely come to life. You would need to insert something that mystically justified what is happening on the screen, some external source. And there in the film it's simple. The captain gives a short speech to a bunch of honored thugs. "The enemy has twice as many people, twice as many cannons, and they will sell their lives dearly". And now we'll break them in. Yes, they said something about England, but very, very superficially. People on that ship, by and large, did not fight for England, but for their own sake. I do not know if you will understand me. And then there was only the courage of the battle and the epic boarding, and the kids, all of them children of noble blood, fought along with adults and even led them into battle. And it was shown not tragically, but cool.

But it's not just a matter of war. This and in many ways so, war, this is only a special case. I'll try to explain. True, beer is not enough.

For example, you could never create something like, for example, the first series of "Indiana Jones". Where Raiders of the Lost Ark. For the Russians, the Ark is the source of some sanctity and grace. For Jews, the source of the Law. But in the American film, the greatest relic of as many as three religions is shown, if we discard the tinsel, simply as a difficultly controlled weapon of mass destruction with an incomprehensible mechanism of application. Therefore, it is better to hide it until we learn how to apply it. And then, when we learn, then we will apply. It only seems that there is something about God. There is no God in that history at all. Rather, there is only one god in Indiana Jones in the entire epic, and this is Jones himself - an American professor of history (geek and humanist, yeah, let's remember that the children of elites teach in their private boarding schools), which by pure chance the athlete drives all modes of transport And is able to handle all types of weapons, including his own fists. Absolutely logical, at the end of the series he is waiting for an apotheosis, in the original meaning of this word. Having drunk from the cup of the Holy Grail, he becomes immortal, that is, equal to the gods. A panel in the Capitol is called "Apotheosis of Washington."

You would never have thought of creating this. Do not think to imagine the icon of the Kazan Mother of God not as a shrine, but as a positron transglucator. If they tried, it would be fake. Because it's taboo. And the West has no taboos.

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Well, that's enough for now. Tomorrow I will continue to translate further, otherwise it's already morning, and I have not gone to bed yet

 

Unfortunately, I again have a lot of work, but I'll allocate 10 more minutes to continue the translation

By the way, the reaction to this text by many of my compatriots is interesting. In general, he was rated very highly. At the moment - 17 likes and 1 dislike. This is a fairly high activity evaluations on my forum. And the author has received 7 positive records in the reputation. That for one message in general a lot But while the text caused a very heated discussion. Many dissenters. I tried to argue with them and came to a paradoxical conclusion. People do not understand what is at stake. They constantly argue about the details, about small examples, and try to refute the particulars. They do not see the picture as a whole, which this Israeli painted. I'm afraid that with the translation into English it can turn out even worse The fact that many Western participants in the forum do not understand the Russians and their difference from Westerners is that I realized long ago. But that the Russians do not understand this difference, moreover, well described in Russian and Russian-speaking user - this was unexpected for me Well, okay, I will continue.

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Still here such moment. You are strangely afraid of the intellect, do not trust it. At the level of instincts. Do not you like clever people. It is very, very noticeable from the outside. And the West idolizes intelligence. Look at the heroes of the West. There are few "simple guys" in the protagonists, this is always the background, or as an exception. Indiana Jones is an intellectual, a professor. Well, only then the special forces. Neo in the Matrix, for example - the coolest hacker. Harry Potter is a frank botanist, he is ahead of all in magical knowledge. Langdon from Da Vinci Code is a professor. About all sorts of Sherlock and no. In the West, the intellectual component of any hero is always pronounced. And many heroes-intellectuals. Russian heroes, as a rule, either "ordinary guys" or saints. No, they can be intellectuals, but this is weakly expressed. This, as it were, poboku. Their holiness or simplicity is more important to you. And the West idolizes intelligence. It is the intellect that is the first sign of the hero on the way to apotheosis.

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This time the fragment is very short, but I'll have to comment on it It was even very controversial for Russians, many did not understand, and with translation into English it's very difficult

Speech, in fact, and the fact that in the Russian tradition, there are usually no heroes whose intellect is self-valuable. Characters whose intellect justifies their other shortcomings. Of course, there are many exceptions. In the end, we have many works, including bestsellers, directly created under the influence of the West and in the Western tradition. But, nevertheless, almost always the intellect of the hero is only an additional attribute. Not an end in itself. Therefore, for example, in the Russian tradition there is no concept of Evil Genius. Evil Genius is possible when the reader or the viewer values the character's intelligence above his moral qualities. In the Russian tradition, an evil character is almost always portrayed as stupid.

Of course, we read Holmes, respecting Moriarty there. We watch with horror and delight the resourcefulness of Hannibal Lecter. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg - in general the object of adoring many.

But these are all Western characters. There are practically no analogous Russians

It happens even funny. For example, the image of the evil genius of Rasputin in the West is sung much more than in Russia itself Despite the fact that this is a famous Russian character. And despite the fact that it seems to me that the West is much more fond of heroes than fictional heroes. Also, by the way, an interesting difference.

Okay, so far I've gone on to work

 

For a while I was trying to be a kind of mediator between the Western and Russian sides in Internet. I was in polemics defending Russia's positions in American forums and the US position on Russians, but it turned out to be useless, people of both sides are not inclined to listen to anything that does not fit into their World outlook. And in American forums, my language barrier and the very aggressive work of anti-Russian media in the West are additionally weighing. So I waved my hand at the discussion and withdrew from the forums.

However, all this time I continued to periodically read foreign forums, tell in Russia what the average American Internet user lives by and so forth

Now I thought that without going into details and not getting involved in a dispute, you can sometimes try to write something similar on the contrary, here about Russia. Not about what is happening in Russia, but about what is causing a response from Russian Internet users.

The Russian Internet is large, it is used by more than 70% of the population. At more than 60% - every day (two out of every three). Therefore, I can not evaluate the whole Internet, but I can talk about those popular centralized resources where I "live".

Here, for example, the list of the hottest topics of this month from my own forum

1. The American missile destroyer John McCain collided with a merchant ship. Well, here it is clear. The topic is hot, soared recently, interest has not yet cooled down. The main topic of the conversation is why in the American Navy, suddenly, so many such incidents have occurred. This does not correspond to the old idea in Russia about the American fleet.

2. A large fire in Rostov-on-Don. This is yesterday's very loud news inside Russia. In the Russian city in the sector of private buildings because of the heat and dryness there was a very large fire. Burned up to 40 houses, hundreds of people were left without a roof over their heads. Many assume that this is the result of arson, arranged by realtors who have long wanted to build new houses in this area. Fortunately, no one died and, most likely, the government compensates for the loss of housing, but people are going through very hard. Mobility in Russia is much lower than in America, people are literally "merging" with their homes ...

3. War with monuments in the United States. In Russia, people are perplexed and joke a lot. They are perplexed, because they realized on their own history how fraught with attempts to rewrite this story, joke because such actions certainly undermine the internal unity of the United States and reduce its influence in the world arena.

4. Terrorist act in Barcelona. Everything is clear. Russia always warmly sympathizes with the victims of terror. Although more and more often the opinion is voiced that Europe itself is to blame for what is happening, both directly, being a participant in the unleashing of wars in the Middle East, and indirectly through the support of migrants.

5. International Forum "Army-2017". About what they say I do not know, I did not follow this topic Probably, they share photos, videos and discuss military sport achievements.

6. In Surgut, a freak with a knife of people cut. This is a variant of "Chinese" and "Israeli" terrorist acts. In Russia it is new. Fortunately, the terrorist did not have time to kill anyone, was shot by a policeman. At first they thought that the usual psycho, but today it turned out that he had sworn an oath of allegiance to ISIS. It's unpleasant that such a case pours water onto the nationalist mill. Again, slogans are sounded about the separation of the southern (Caucasian) regions of Russia and the fight against national minorities in Russia.

7. "Our customs" on the topic. Self-criticism about the unpleasant features of wild business (low quality of tourist services, taxis) and whether the state should strictly regulate the quality of service issues or this market should develop freely.

8. "Flood" about the division and decay of countries. Geopolitics of separatism after the collapse of the USSR.

9. R&D on VTOL is incorporated in the state program of armaments 2018-2025. Discussion of the prospects for the revival of VTOLs and whether we need it at all.

10. The USA against the USA. The title of the old topic "USA vs Russia" is being played. Again, discussion of the split in the United States on the subject of monuments to the Confederates.

Also a lot of discussions (but this is already without the popularity rating of the topics):

- The terrorist act in Turku. News on the attack in Finland. There was no discussion, it was lost against the news of the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Surgut, but many people read this topic.

- Entering Lebanon in the war with ISIS.

- The plot of a new "Avatar" by James Cameron. And the world of "Avatar" in general.

- Long-running dispute around the F-35.

- USA vs Russia. The topic was mentioned indirectly above. The subject is already 12 years old and it continues to be active

- Causes of the collapse of the USSR. It's also a long-standing question, which does not have a single right answer and will therefore be returned to it again and again.

- The dispute about the age of recruitment into the army. When a person is ready to enter the army, and when it's too late.

- Private military companies in Russia. The Wagner Group, its losses in Syria. Do Russia need private military companies?

- Discussion of railway missile systems. Revival of this kind of nuclear forces in Russia in the light of growing tension.

- The possibility of an American strike against North Korea.

- Perspectives of high-tech fighting robots on the battlefield. Achievements in the field of weak AI, etc.

- The war of Syria with ISIS. The question is very hot, but under it is a whole subforum, so each of the topics in itself is not very hot.

- "Results of Putin". The eternal and unceasing holywar between Putin's supporters, Putin's opponents and those who believe that he has little to do with anything

- Construction of Russia. Another similar topic in which the opposition is trying to achieve some concrete answers, what should be done to ensure that Russia does not become what they are unhappy with. For some reason the discontent can not come up with any practical improvement plan in the country

....

Well, I think that's enough for a start. In principle, it is possible to assess what issues now live a certain section of the Internet community in Russia.

 

Ah, I forgot to mention a few hot topics

- Game of Thrones.
- "Matilda". A very hot topic about attempts to pressure the film about the mistress of the last Russian Tsar.
- A long age dispute over idiots who sincerely believe that the Americans did not fly to the moon.
- Many topics about Ukraine, life in the USSR, aviation, fleet. But they also have separate sub-forums for them, so although the themes themselves are hot, after they are divided into many topics, the activity of each topic is not so great separately to get to the top

 

I do not know whether this is shown in the Western media. I'm lazy to check But here are 360 videos filmed in open space. Made to today's 60th anniversary of the first artificial Earth satellite ("Sputnik").



Yes, today is the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the space age

 

Sad news from Syria. Both Russians from a private military company of Wagner, who were captured by ISIS were executed. After that part of the video message, which was shown on social networks, the prisoners were forced to state for example that they had joined ISIS. Roman Zabolotny and Grigory Surkanov did not obey the demand of terrorists. After refusing to read the prepared text Zabolotny and Surkanov were executed.



Roman Zabolotny worked as a cook, Grigory Surkanov, presumably an soldier.

 

It's certainly odd that these things are happening. I personally could see there being a direct reason for it, but wouldn't have a clue what it could be. It's possible these ships are intentionally colliding with naval ships in order to garner attention and sympathy, but, the reality is they're probably just accidents.... not that it says anything positive for the helmsmen.

I haven't heard anything about this, but that doesn't sound good. I'm sorry to hear this happened, and if the relators are found guilty of arson, I certainly hope justice is dispensed.

That's pretty much how I feel about the subject. Our liberals are attempting to censor and rewrite history because history makes people "feel bad" or is "inconvenient" to a narrative they want to push. Just one of many fronts the political civil war in the US is waging right now.

Europe -is- absolutely to blame for their current predicament. They chose to let in so many migrants, they chose to have unrestricted border access, and they choose to ignore obvious threats to their own national security. I understand, as do many others here, that not -all- Muslims are going to commit terror... but the law of statistics certainly reigns supreme.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what this is.

It sounds to me like that has a lot of internal politics attached to it, as I'm not familiar with any separation of regions being talked about in Russia. Can you provide more information on this?

Well... I'm a capitalist, I'd say it's best to let the market develop naturally without state regulation.

This feels like something you'd need a good knowledge of Russian history for, and sadly my lack of expertise in that area is wanting

Eh, VTOL is almost a relic of a lost era at this point. The SU-35 is a great plane, and if the rumors I hear about the Su-47 are even remotely accurate, that's going to be where Russia wants to dump it's Air Defense Funding.

No one with any real common sense wants to see USA vs Russia. Russia as a nation is going to commit espionage, spy, and intel gathering to protect it's interests domestically and internationally. The US does the same thing, as does every other industrialized nation in the world. No one should be surprised these things occur.

-These are just my quick thoughts on the matters.

 

Well, there's not much that is interesting to say. Russia is too multinational and too federal, so that nationalism can take on very great roots. For 70 years, the USSR educated people within the framework of national and ethnic tolerance, with some skewing towards national minorities. For example, representatives of national minorities had an advantage when entering universities. The Republics of the USSR had better financing than Russia. Etc. This, too, was one of the reasons for the collapse of the USSR. In the republics then they decided that if they live better than Russia, then after separation from the USSR it will become even better

This also affected the national identity. The USSR tried to purposefully cultivate the identity of peoples, preserve language and culture. Therefore, in many republics, localized nationalism began to develop. And when the USSR collapsed, representatives of other nationalities, including Russians, began to be expelled from the new republics, and often even directly killed. Many local conflicts arose.

Russia and the USSR was also a federal republic. It also was before and now consists of republics, including national ones. After the collapse of the USSR, they also created some separatism. For example, Tatarstan, the largest Muslim republic of Russia, until 2008 (if I'm not mistaken) did not even pay taxes to the Russian budget.

Chechnya gained more independence. In fact, it completely ceased to obey Moscow in 1992. Russia tried to solve this issue in various ways, but then it was very weakened both economically, politically, and militarily. Therefore de facto Chechnya, then the republic of Ichkeria, became independent. But she took advantage of her independence not in the best way. The Chechens began to kill the Russians, rob the transit traffic, attack neighboring regions, and organize loud terrorist attacks in Russia. The republic turned into a hotbed of terrorism. That led to the beginning of the first Chechen war in 1994.

The ideological influence of Chechnya began to spread to other republics of the Russian Caucasus - Ingushetia, Dagestan. Although they did not follow the path of separatism, anti-Russian sentiments became visible there. This attitude towards the Russians raised the response wave of anti-Caucasian nationalism already among the Russians themselves. A particularly harsh attitude towards the inhabitants of the Caucasus was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when a series of the most high-profile terrorist attacks took place in Russia. After the formal end of the second Chechen war, the pro-Russian government of Kadyrov came to power there. And Moscow began to allocate huge funds for the restoration of the war-torn republic. This also raised an additional wave of nationalism under the slogans "Enough to feed the Caucasus."

Nationalist sentiment grew until the end of 2013, when a nationalist march took place in Moscow, in which up to 10,000 participants took part.

But then Russian nationalism fell sharply. On the one hand, Russia has laws that directly punish the incitement of national hatred. On the other hand, since the beginning of 2014 a series of events have taken place that have strongly united the inhabitants of Russia regardless of their nationality - the Sochi Olympics, the coup d'état in Ukraine, the return of the Crimea, the anti-Russian sanctions of the West, the war in Syria ... All this began actively to develop pro-Russian patriotism, split and dispersed the nationalists. So, since 2014, nationalistic manifestations in Russia have almost disappeared. Although, of course, they did not completely disappear. And sometimes, after some high-profile events related to national minorities, in the radical sections of society they ask themselves again, like, but do not we need to at least introduce a visa regime with Uzbekistan? - for example, because in almost all the last cases of prevented terrorist attacks, most often the organizers were the residents of Uzbekistan.

I tried to give an answer to your question, as I see it, but I'm afraid that such a big text I can not carefully read for errors Google translate If some fragments are not clear - ask.

 

Some more hot topics of recent times. Not very orderly, partly from the last to the early, partly in order of importance, in part - just as I recall.

Today a big accident near Vladimir. A minibus from Kazakhstan, mainly with workers from this state, tried to cross the railway crossing before the arriving train, but did not have time. In the accident, 19 people were killed, including several children.

In Nizhny Novgorod there are two major fires. One in the oil refinery, there were killed 4 people. The second fire, without casualties - at the stadium. But the piquancy of the situation is that this is a large new stadium, which is being built for the 2018 World Cup. So there was a lot of noise.



A lot of media attention is paid to the topic of Russian prisoners in ISIS. I wrote the news about their execution a little earlier. The opposition, as usual, rejoices at this event. The opinion of the others is different. Someone is in favor of intensifying strikes against ISIS and for launching strikes against American instructors suspected of supporting ISIS, someone is indignant at the Russian government's restrained reaction to this event.

The theme of the massacre in Las Vegas is hotly debated. Disputes revolve around technical details, motives. But the debate is hotter around the long-standing topic of legalizing weapons in Russia.

 

Already almost subsided, but recently hot was the topic of the monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow.



One of the oppositionists said that Kalashnikov, as the inventor of the most mass automatic rifle, is guilty of the death of millions of people and a monument to him is blasphemy. This caused a very noisy debate. Cherry on this cake was that the illiteracy of the authors of the monument was placed on him a drawing of the German assault rifle StG 44



This rifle looks very similar to the Kalashnikov rifle, which constantly pours oil on Kalashnikov's accusations of plagiarism. This question pops up almost every year, as often as "American astronauts were not on the moon," and then - such a noisy reason

Well, someone just is not very happy with the monument. Mikhail Kalashnikov is more like a gangster from the 1990s than a talented inventor.

Although there was a mock-up of a more interesting monument, where Kalashnikov is depicted as he was when he invented his machine gun.





And, finally, two more cherries (or a whole pineapple?) On a cake scandal with this monument. After detecting the error with the drawing, it was decided to cut it. But when the workers began to do this, the police came and arrested workers for vandalism

 

Much attention is paid to the issue of separatism in Catalonia. Despite the Kremlin's position "this is an internal affair of Spain", most Russians seem to support the Catalans.

Some even found the old political humor from 2012

 

The sad news is two weeks old. In Syria, the Russian general Valery Asapov was killed. He was on the front line after crossing the Euphrates River and came under fire from the ISIS. He himself and two other staff officers perished. In the photo, General Asapov on the bank of the Euphrates.

 

Funny news from Ukraine. Despite all attempts to introduce a blockade against the Donbass, coal was recently discovered in Poland, produced in the Donbas. This adds fuel to the already bright fire of Polish-Ukrainian tension. Also interesting figures - Ukraine this year already bought coal in Russia for $1.04 billion (54.9% of all Ukrainian purchases of coal). Obviously, at least some of this coal is produced in the notorious blockaded Donbass. About the same way as Ukraine buys gas in Europe today, which Russia supplies there

 

Forgot to mention. Yesterday, two Russian submarines launched another 10 cruise missiles "Caliber" on the ISIS. The launch was salvo, from underwater position. But such news does not cause the excitement, as it was in the early days of Russia's entry into the Syrian war.

 

A month ago, Russia was subjected to an unusual method of attack. Unknown people call from abroad and falsely warn about bombs planted in public buildings - schools, shopping centers, administrative institutions, cultural events and homes. In each case, a complete evacuation and research for mining is necessary. In just a month, 1900 buildings were "mined" in 120 cities of Russia. A total of more than 800,000 people were evacuated. The economic damage to this phenomenon is extremely difficult to calculate, but it is huge. How to deal with such a phenomenon is still unclear.

 

Visit of the King of Saudi Arabia to Russia. The theme that generates a lot of fun. Despite the fact that Saudi Arabia stood for separatism in the Caucasus and financed anti-Russian terrorists, the Russians are not vindictive, especially when there are occasions for jokes

Here is the meeting of a shaman and a wizard:



The Russian Defense Minister - Sergei Shoigu - is a Tuvinian, and the Tuvans are known for their strong shamans



And here is the meeting of the king with Putin. But my friends are unhappy - this photo is clearly confused with light swords! This is our president should be red, this is our country - Mordor!

Well, if there were no jokes, the horn of contracts fell down there. The Saudis buy from us S-400, licenses for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles, approved some contracts for the construction of roads in Russia ... In general, the Saudi king brought with him 500 tons of luggage, 200 officials, 85 heads of large enterprises - there are items for dialogue ...

 

Forgive me some brutality, I did not write earlier. I express my condolences to all ordinary Americans because of the tragedy in Las Vegas. Despite the fact that relations between our countries are experiencing, perhaps, the worst period in history, many people in Russia are experiencing such cases as their own tragedy.



Residents of Moscow brought flowers and candles to the US Embassy in connection with the tragedy in Las Vegas

 

Here is another hot internal Russian issue, which, probably, is not widely covered in the West In Russia, a film-melodrama about the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his relationship with the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya was shot.



The film may have remained so little known, but the former Crimean prosecutor began to object to him sharply, and now the State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. Poklonskaya - a charismatic woman, even on this forum there is a topic on it But she is a convinced monarchist and loses touch with reality when, it seems to her, offend the king And if we add here that for political reasons the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II and he is now considered a Russian saint ... In general, the scandal turned out to be huge. Some hotheads demanded that the film should not be shown in cinemas at all. Sick Orthodox activists set fire to one of the cinemas, where they were supposed to show the film, burned the car of the film's lawyer, threatened with terrorist attacks.



Now they are arrested and awaiting trial. And the film got a fantastic PR

 

Here, only I wrote above about a new kind of telephone terrorism. Over the last hour, Moscow authorities received almost 30 reports of the threat of an explosion. Including five schools, of which more than 1500 children had to be evacuated.