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Old 12-21-2017, 05:20 PM
 
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If Turkey wants to take annex northern Syria, which it could easily do at the moment, is Russia going to be okay with that? How about with a rushed referendum?
What kind of population lives in Northern Syria, may I ask?
Are they mostly Turks?
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Old 12-21-2017, 05:30 PM
 
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What kind of population lives in Northern Syria, may I ask?
Are they mostly Turks?
I believe so. It's one of those cases of lines moving over people and I believe the French are the ones responsible in this case. Syria should surrender sovreignity or at least give them a very high degree of autonomy. Syria is in ways a lot like Ukraine. For Turkey it's just a land grab, they couldn't care less about the people there. Most of the fighters there are indiginous people or from southern Turkey from what I understand.

Syria has only to gain by accepting a peace. The problem is the meddling of other powers via Lebanon and Turkey. Kurds live further east and they don't like the Turks there.
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Old 12-22-2017, 02:59 PM
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Location: California
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....the bridge that, according to some, was "never was going to be built"...."no serious, capable engineering company is going to put a bolt on it", it is all propaganda and, if they really going to attempt to built it, it will end up in a disaster.......remember those statements?? LOL
No, straw man much? This bridge should have been built years ago. Finally it will happen. Its a better use of money than building stadiums for a disgraced Olympics.
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Old 12-23-2017, 02:04 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Goodbye Russia: A generation packs its bags

Russia's leading environmental activist is one of more than a million people - many of them young and well-educated - who have packed their bags and left the country in recent years, writes the BBC's Lucy Ash. Russian even has a word for the phenomenon, "poravalism".

Goodbye Russia: A generation packs its bags - BBC News
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Old 12-23-2017, 11:15 AM
 
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People always love to talk about Russians who leave Russia. What about those who stay and those who move back? LOL!!!

Congrats on the lady who won for Khimki Forest.
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Old 12-23-2017, 12:36 PM
 
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Goodbye Russia: A generation packs its bags

Russia's leading environmental activist is one of more than a million people - many of them young and well-educated - who have packed their bags and left the country in recent years, writes the BBC's Lucy Ash. Russian even has a word for the phenomenon, "poravalism".

Goodbye Russia: A generation packs its bags - BBC News

...and where do they go?? I haven't read of an upsurge of Russians arriving somewhere else.

There are a lot of stories about well educated Russians (including scientists) actually going back as well...
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Old 12-23-2017, 12:57 PM
 
Location: South Jersey
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...and where do they go?? I haven't read of an upsurge of Russians arriving somewhere else.

There are a lot of stories about well educated Russians (including scientists) actually going back as well...
Really? There are tons of Russians in a few American cities. Philadelphia and New York come to mind.
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Old 12-23-2017, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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https://news.google.com/news/amp?cau...H0HP#pt0-37388

“(Reuters) - The Russian Communist Party on Saturday unexpectedly dropped its veteran leader Gennady Zyuganov as its presidential candidate to challenge President Vladimir Putin next year, choosing instead a largely unknown businessman with links to the farm sector.“ “the party picked Pavel Grudinin.”
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Old 12-23-2017, 04:15 PM
 
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“(Reuters) - The Russian Communist Party on Saturday unexpectedly dropped its veteran leader Gennady Zyuganov as its presidential candidate to challenge President Vladimir Putin next year, choosing instead a largely unknown businessman with links to the farm sector.“ “the party picked Pavel Grudinin.”
Ahh... Bwa-ha-ha...Him.
They chose Grudinin after all, lol.
( Yeah, today was the 23rd over there, the CPSU (RF) congre... well not congress, but their meeting where they were supposed to name a presidential candidate.)
Well I'm glad that I kept my eye on the "left" forces over there, so by now I have pretty good idea of Grudinin and what to expect from him, even listening to this older ( from November) video -

( "What would you do if you were a president?")


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

So yeah... NOW things are getting interesting over there)))
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Old 12-23-2017, 04:27 PM
 
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Really? There are tons of Russians in a few American cities. Philadelphia and New York come to mind.
Sure, in my city too but the "wave" was from the 1990s....
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