I'm assuming "sent a plane to the US" is about the Russian Internal Affairs Minister visiting the UN meeting of ministers of Internal Affairs. Is this really some big news? I'd say the Pentagon chief's call to the Russian Ministry of Defense right after Russia had called the US envoy was bigger news.

I think he always talks about peace negotiations when he talks about this topic.

Russia has been constantly pushing for security guarantees over the past 15 years, so, yeah, that hasn't changed.

If Trump wins, nothing will change. Trump started arming the Kiev regime the moment he became president, and his "peace plan" is to threaten Russia with increased weapon supplies to the Kiev regime.

I understand it's difficult to realize, but the United States isn't the center of the world, and Russia doesn't care about Biden's presentation of it as a victory. What Russia cares about is its own security.

Mentioning peace negotiations in Istanbul at the press conference after talks with the Turkish leader was an extreme effort, yeah.

Publicly proposing concrete details of a peace agreement right before the "peace summit" provided a realistic alternative to Zelensky's "peace plan". And, according to the rumors, it was discussed there privately.

Ha-ha, yeah, spb has a really nice weather. Come and see for yourself.

https://youtu.be/lpDYOdD8tS8?si=BVYnNXTgH7Zuohfy

I don't think I know a single person around my age who fairly passed the driving exam, for instance. Explains a lot about what I see on the roads, actually.

But other than that, I think it's limited to certain regions. For instance, I've visited the Caucasus and some regions there feel like have never left the 90's.

I think it comes down to these parties never being able to put an actual idea of what they want to do. And without the concrete program, you can't really contest the government. Hence, all what is left for them to do is to earn public points with stuff like "Let's remove final exams!", "Let's bring back everything as it was in USSR!". Oh, almost forgot: "All financial people in the government are controlled by the USA!!! Need to fire them asap!!!".

So, in the end it turned out that to at least keep their position, they can't contest the most popular politician.

Well, and public politics is pretty far from the actual one.

WW2 is the event that affected every family in some capacity. For instance, one of my grandgrandparents was officially declared dead 3 times and yet survived the whole war.

I'd say Victory Day is the biggest holiday in Russia after New Year.

But there is a group of people who think that celebrating it is bad. Happily, most of them showed their real faces in the past 2 years.

1. I don't think I really cared till something like 2014. I was certainly heavily influenced by its culture.

2. Well, it went from not caring to considering it an enemy. So, I guess?

3. Obviously. Not in the nearest future, however.

It would be ridiculous to identify Hitler's clique with the German people, with the German state. The experience of history says that the Hitlers come and go, but the German people, and the German state remains.

Yes, the issue is NATO expansion, not the US itself. You could argue that the US is pushing for NATO expansion, but I would say EU officials are equally insane.

Maybe you're trying to say that if Europe became an independent entity overnight, then it would not be in its interests to continue this expansion. This might be true, but it is a big "if" in the current situation.

Then you're still left with 2. And addressing 2 makes 1 irrelevant.

• Not being legally part of something does not mean not taking part in it.
• Continuing the same expansionist policy as NATO did before would still be an issue for Russia.

Are you certain that searching "Ювелирный магазин" on Yandex maps didn't bring any results in St. Petersburg?

Well, knowing English, how to use internet and being deep enough in western culture to know what reddit is and actually use it is already quite a big ask for an average Russian.

Add to that the fact that the military is usually far the first choice for people to go to, and you'll get my assumption.

Well, the key word here is 'in comparison'.

I've elaborated my previous comment.

Every media is biased towards its owner.

Literally the first line in my comment.

You seem to be triggered by my comparison with western media built for the same purpose. Yes, in comparison, RT looks way more objective.

I opened Radio Liberty tg channel just to check it out, and out of 10 last post there are: 7 about how shit everything is in Russia, 1 about how amazing it is in Ukraine, 1 about tg outage and 1 random international news.

Yeah, RT is nowhere close to that.

Every media is biased towards its owner.

RIA is basically the same as any other major Russian media. Maybe they have opinion pieces of more pro-government experts, but that's about it. They tend to check info and work with sources better than the other ones. If I need to find a source for something, I usually check their article.

Can't say anything about Russian RT version, but English one seems to be just that: Russian media in English.

If we compare them to western propaganda media (like western media in Russian or plain propaganda like Radio Liberty or Voice of America) then I'd say that in comparison our media are simply amazingly unbiased.

I think that I only have 2 examples among my far relatives. One was mobilized and killed and one is in the national guard there since day 1 and was fine the last time I checked.

But I'd emphasize that military personnel demographic is probably really far from reddit one. Especially in more deadly frontline roles.

It depends on the place. But if I actually want to go to a specific restaurant, and they have reservations, then I'll make one.

But if you just walk and want to eat somewhere, it's usually not that hard to find a place. It just might take a while, especially in the evening.

I know a restaurant network that doesn't do reservations and there is almost always a long queue to dine there. At this point, I just don't bother going there to check if they have free tables.

1. Yes. Though, some Russian banks take commission for that.
2. I have no idea, but from my understanding there is no drastic difference. The only service that I've ever bought there was taxi in Russian roubles.
3. Well, I assume that you're not a Russian citizen. Which means you can only cross the border by plane. And you need a separate visa and insurance for that.

Here is the source for 3:

https://www.consultant.ⓡⓤ/document/cons_doc_LAW_363855/eb6e4afd9fd62513c045746b856eb36845405a7a/

FSB of Russia "The Border Service of the FSB of Russia informs"

2.4. Specifics of departure of foreign citizens from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus and in the opposite direction
[...]
Due to the fact that checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation have not been established on the Russian-Belarusian state border, citizens of third countries and stateless persons can only travel from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Belarus and enter the Russian Federation from the Republic of Belarus by air if they have valid identity documents recognized by the Russian Federation in this capacity, and a Russian visa
[...]

There is no concrete information about it as far as I can see. I have no idea how this works in his case, but I'd assume announcements of the concerts usually happen some time prior to the event.

It's a meme about Chinese propaganda with poor translation to Russian, where the reward is a rice bowl (or two) and a cat-wife.

Something like this .

We're all here just waiting for our cat-wives from China.

It could. It just had to magically solve all the issues the Russian Empire was plagued with, and then find money and resources to do so.

Doesn't seem feasible for me without drastic changes to economics, which only Bolsheviks were capable of implementing at the time.

I only really watched a couple of clips and read a small quotes on some topics. But I think it perfectly illustrates that the president in the US is just a public face and nothing more.

Use the search function.

My usual response is something along the lines that a foreigner can't really tell how good or bad some government is. The only thing we can see is China's development under this government. And from this perspective, it's pretty amazing.

In relations to Russia, it seems to be the regular pragmatic relationships between sovereign countries. Where China can push Russia to worse terms, it does. Where it can benefit from selling something, it does.

https://novayagazeta.eu/static/records/7b2fe630b8dd40cf887dd6a931c9298e.webp 

Seems like the perfect example of western propaganda turning a person into biodrone.

когда учитель вышел из класса, Арсений включил некую песню, «в которой критиковался Президент и политика страны», и начал танцевать

Like, wtf?

I'm pretty sure you have got some wrong quotes. Russia has never had any issues with Ukraine's independence. What it has issues with is Ukraine hosting US military infrastructure. This is what Putin calls an existential threat. I mean, if an independent Ukraine was an existential threat to Russia, then the peace proposals would have displayed that.

Well, you can see it like Mexico deciding to host Chinese military on its territory. In fact, the EU now claims that the conflict is an existential threat to the EU because Russian military will be on EU borders. Apparently, this only works one way in the minds of EU officials.

I think the best description of what led to the conflict can be found in kremlin agent Jeffrey Sachs's interview to kremlin agent Tucker Carlson.