It all comes down to who is teaching you the language I think.  I'm american, but took german in high school and I found it very easy and natural to pick up.  However, my teacher was actually nationally recongnized as one the best in the country too...

Do you guys think that it was a huge mistake to sell Alaska? I mean, damn...

Yes

what do you think about russian germans or volga germans, or whatever they call them. what do you think about the ones living in germany now and the one who stayed in russia. I'm myself one, I can talk in russian although I'm really bad at it but I can't read it because I was never in a russian school(and reallllyyy lazy). Sometimes I meet real russians on vacation. for them I'm sometimes a nazi, sometimes a traitor and sometimes a comrade.

i would ask one.....why is russia too damn huge

Ivan the Terrible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible

From what I read up just a few minutes ago, Icelandic should be easier for English speakers than some others.  Also, it says it's subjective as they say learning any language is "hard."  Some are easier than others, but there isn't really a hardest one.  

It goes to explain that declensions are probably the reason why it's considered so difficult.

Well i think that not that many have tried to study Finnish either... =P

I can somewhat understand how people in Russia like Putin but Stalin? What!? One of the biggest and most cold blooded dictators in human history. Deported millions of people after (and during) WWII and purged hundreds of thousands. Even Lenin was afraid of Stalin before he died and made a testament that was however suppressed by the ruling troika (That included Stalin).

Yeah. I'm not a terrible enemy of the free markets, but they need to be adopted judiciously. If you go from a heavily regulated, protected market to a market with fewer barriers to trade, all you end up with is a country with no comparative advantage (due to said protectionism) getting eaten alive by foreign firms, then everyone is out of work and you have real trouble...

The de-nationalization of the end of Communism was something that should have been undertaken gradually, even in the multiparty environment. (e.g., the death of economic Communism should have been slower than the death of political Communism).