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Di you like Russia?

Yes, I love it! 218 35.68%
 
No, I hate it. 144 23.57%
 
Russia is strange... 130 21.28%
 
Don't know yet, curious ... 67 10.97%
 
Don't know and don't care. 45 7.36%
 
Total:604
PDF said:

Can you really get vodka in your coffee at McDonalds?

Have no idea what they sell there, come to think of it I've not been in McDonalds since... ever, but sounds like a bunch of "branchy cranberry".

Is it weird to have some of your population European and some Asian? or do you use the 5 continent structure?

No.

Why do all bad guys have Russian accents - stolen from the daily show.

Ask producers of said shows.

Do you believe you live in a democracy?

Depends on what do you mean by that, never gave a second thought to what -ism or -cracy I live in, my world picture doesn't need that.





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Can you give me a description of what Law's were put into place that now prevent certain right's of Homosexual's?
Why is their so much interest in the Ukraine from Russia?
As to why does Russia find it their obligation to go into a country (Ukraine) that is having a major political reform, and to go into the country with it's own Military and not diplomat's?
Also what its the average temperature there and what are your seasons like?



Muffin31190 said:

Can you give me a description of what Law's were put into place that now prevent certain right's of Homosexual's?

There're two federal laws, the first being Federal law in regard to protection of children from information harmful to their health and development virtually similiar to "no homo promo" laws in States, but on federal level. It doesn't prevent anything, only definitions, quote:

5. Types of information that are considered harmful to children health and (or) development. 4) Information that disclaims family values, advocates non-traditional sexual relations and forms non-respectful attitude towards parents and (or) other members of the family.

The other one is Code of Administrative Offences ("administrative offences" ~ "misdemeanor" in terms of common law), quote:

6.21. Propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. 1) Spreading of information that aims to form non-traiditional sexual orientation among minors, appeal to non-traditional sexual relations, distorted perception of social equality of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations... fine from 4000 to 5000 RUR (~110-140 USD).

Fines may rise considerably depending on the circumstances, like legal status of the defendant, e.g. media channel will pay more.

 Why is their so much interest in the Ukraine from Russia? 
As to why does Russia find it their obligation to go into a country (Ukraine) that is having a major political reform, and to go into the country with it's own Military and not diplomat's?

Aside from cultural ties and all that crap, what would you do if somone starts orchestring a Nazi revolt near your borders?


Also what its the average temperature there and what are your seasons like?

Depends on the region.





Pretty much all the answers on the Ukraine questions in this video(with eng subs):

 

Not ideal, but much closer to truth compare to the western, and especially US, media POV.



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English is not my native language.

Why the hate for the gay people? I thought most of Russia was atheist.



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SlayerRondo said:
What role did the mongol empire have in the birth of modern Russia?

It's Golden Horde, Mongol Empire cease to exist by that time. Traditional historiography considers it one of the main factors that lead to consolidation of many Russian fedual states under the hand of Moscow prince, as any common enemy would do.

Though there're centuries between one and another, but that's ancient history where myth coexist with actual history and it's hard to distinguish one from another (myth as a form peception of history by many, not necessarily smth that never happened).

Here's the battle of Peresvet and Chelubey before Battle of Kulikovo to depict it.



mind said:

Pretty much all the answers on the Ukraine questions in this video(with eng subs):

 

 Not ideal, but much closer to truth compare to the western, and especially US, media POV.

Well, Goblin is adorable as usual, but he speaks Russian, and there's a lot of work to do for us before majority of foreigners will start to understand it, comrade.

NVM there's English captions option :D



pezus said:
Mnementh said:
Lumikki said:

I also learnt Russian in school and I think it's not the easiest, but in the same time it's the hardest language. For example I think German was much much more trickier than Russian. There's lots of irregularity in grammar and not always the words are pronounced as written (o is sometimes pronounced as a etc). I could say that if you learn the cyrillic alphabet you will notice that Russian has borrowed lots of loan words from German/English/Swedish/French and it easies the learning a lot if you are familiar with those languages. I haven't either used Russian for a long time and starting forgetting.....

As I'm german, I have no problems with it. But I agree, most foreigners I know claim german is very hard to learn.

@pezus: I can't Icelandic, is it really that hard?

It is. Infamously so. Even for a lot of Icelanders. I can't imagine trying to learn it if I came from England/USA, for example.


Actually, I have some minor knowledge of Icelandic since I'll probably move there for a short while during this year. It didn't seem to that hard for me, just like any other European language, but with a few special characters. I think the level of enthusiasm towards a target language helps a lot, for example I didn't have any verve to study Swedish in school which made the learning painful. If I had some interest towards that language, I think I'd have mastered it easily. Now I can barely introduce myself in Swedish xD 

As someone said already, Finnish is much harder, I really can't image any foreigner would master it perfectly (Well, maybe Estonians and such...)



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mai said:

Well, Goblin is adorable as usual, but he speaks Russian, and there's a lot of work to do for us before majority of foreigners will start to understand it, comrade.

Aha!  You've revealed the truth.  Crimea is only the beginning to Putin's plans for world domination.  



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Figgycal said:
Why the hate for the gay people? I thought most of Russia was atheist.


In the past years after the collapse of the USSR, the religion has gained popularity very fast. According to Wikipedia 41% of the population belonged to the Orthodox Church in 2012, not speaking about the other minor religions in the country (Islam, Buddhism, other Christian religions...). The Orthodox church has very close ties with Kreml and that might also have some effect.

Well, I think hating gay people and religions are not interaction with each other, not everyone who belongs to church hates gays.. 



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