Moses

Since at any moment it can be exchanged to crypto or any other currency, there is no difference. You still not got? I didn't wrote what US lost global control. I wrote: because of stupidest Biden's decision US lost control on Russian trade: now whole trade is going by alternate channels and US doesn't see where and what Russia buys and sell. Instead of almost total transparency at past, when 95% of trade went via US banks, US now is blind. And that is one of the main reasons why sanctions don't work.

Did you meant "strong"? "Russian ruble: The curious case of the world’s best-performing currency this year" "Ruble is Top Performing Currency outpacing Gold" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/ruble-surges-as-best-performing-global-currency-outpacing-gold I got +35% via currency trade in 6 months. I wrote here back in 2022 that Biden's decision to ban Russia from paying in dollars was the stupidest decision of the century: it is impossible to push Russia out of world trade due to its high share in many markets. Therefore, when sanctions were introduced, Russia simply began to trade in rubles, and this strengthened the ruble. All, what Biden's administration got from this ban - lost control on Russian payments. Just 3 months after Biden boasted that the rate was 200 rubles per dollar, the ruble strengthened 3 times and became 60 rubles per dollar. Reader wrote just six months ago that the ruble collapsed again and became 120:1, and now it is 80:1. Volatility is not a problem, but an opportunity to earn. A lot of money. Meanwhile share of US $ in SWIFT payments dropped from 59.3% in 2021 to 49.1% in August 2024.

you don't see difference btw "deal with enemy" and "waporising in nuclear flame hundreds of thousands of civilians"?

Inflation is covered by bank interest 20-24% all innovations from iPhone to modern processors are still on market, the difference is - now we buying everything from abroad not directly but from UAE, Turkey, Chinese and other distributors, why else EU preparing already 19th wave of sanctions? just because they doesn't work it is funny: German GDP growing is negative while growing of GDP of Russia under sanctions is greater than US GDP growing... Russian international trade after 18 waves of sanctions still brings billions and Russian debt is lower than before and now is just 14% of GDP...

Oh, dear. It is problem of planet Earth: why else decision or prosecutors and courts in US and views on Trump's, Biden's, Obama's actions depends on who is in power in White House?

BBC: real number to May 2025 is 108.600 https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/16/bbc-and-mediazona-confirm-deaths-of-more-than-108-600-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine

Who said I'm running "from Russia"? Server is in Canada, so I'm running from Canada. By the way: have you try to find word "gay" on Siamroads site? I'm sure - you didn't. P.S. Kotov was prosecuted not because he had gay travel agency, but because he opened political club within LGBT clientele Right now bunch of such agencies are working here without problems. For example: https://atour-online.ru/countries/turtsiya/oteli-dlya-odinokih-muzhchin-v-turcii/ - quite large agency (use google translation) - tours for male travelers and nobody will ask you there about your orientation.

Once I spoke with these words in your defense. Now I will tell the same to you: When an opponent with low culture and/or education finds himself in a situation where he has nothing to add or object to, he resorts to personal attacks. Just like illiterate peasant grannies at a village market who argue over the best trading place.

Dear, you are trying to teach me about Russia with "knowledges" implemented to you by Western propaganda. Why you distributing lies? Same sex relation by centuries were crime in The Russian Empire's Criminal Code - included Article 995. The irony is what exactly Bolsheviks under Lenin rule decriminalized such relation with abolishing the Tsar's Criminal Codex. Late, under Stalin's regime relations were criminalized again and were in such state till 1993.

Nope. Siamroads works in SE Asia. So, nobody cares.

I'm lawyer. You know what amazes me? How easily the Western average person can be brainwashed. The country of Russia has always been homophobic at the everyday level. Simply because all the leading religions represented in Russia condemn same-sex relationships. The state of Russia decriminalized same-sex relationships in 1993. And since then, nothing has changed in this regard. The changes in legislation affected gays in the part in which the state tried to prevent their participation as a separate force in political life. And I have a question: why don't you notice that Western propaganda is deliberately demonizing Russia? In Poland, at the state, official level, voivodeships and communities declare themselves "gay-free" and no one writes about it. Of course: a member of the EU and NATO. In the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar - same-sex people are criminally prosecuted, but Western media are silent about this too, because these countries are business partners and suppliers of hydrocarbons. And about Russia they write "nightmare-nightmare", although in the center of Moscow near the Kremlin walls there are gay clubs and saunas. Can't guess why? P.S. There are 44 countries in Europe, 47 countries are members of the Council of Europe. Of them only 34 countries recognize gay relation officially. Maybe Western world should care about that more, instead of demonizing Russia in propaganda?

Nope. It can't be qualified on such way. Term 'participating" has strict definition in law. If you will run with rainbow flag by street you'll be arrested and fined. If you will dance in gay club - nobody cares. That why gay clubs, saunas and bars are still working in Moscow and other cities. Moscow on Google map right now: Sankt-Petersburg on Google map right now:

This numbers are correlating with Ukrainian propaganda and has nothing mutual with real situation. Although Russia does not report the size of its losses during the conflict, the real numbers are easily tracked down to the individual dead quite easily and reliably. Russia has a single registry of inheritance cases. After the death of any Russian citizen from any cause, an inheritance case is opened. This registry is open and accessible to anyone online. The opposition Russian media Meduza, together with the British non-profit foundation and BBC News, have been tracking all cases of opening inheritance cases since 2022. And they regularly publish a report. Since inheritance cases arise with a delay of about 3 months, and it also takes time to count, there is a lag of about 6 months. As of May 2025, 108,600 inheritance cases were opened. https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/16/bbc-and-mediazona-confirm-deaths-of-more-than-108-600-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine

This is also twisted propaganda and lie. Soldiers from North Korea did take part in the fighting in the conflict. North Korea fulfilled its duty to Russia under the mutual defense treaty - when Ukrainian troops invaded the territory of the Kursk region of Russia, North Korea sent its troops to Russia to help, as stipulated by the treaty. The Koreans fought bravely in the territory of the Kursk region together with the Russian troops. The Koreans did not enter the former Ukrainian territories and did not take part in the military conflict there. That is why, no matter how irritated they were by the fact of the participation of the Koreans in the conflict, no country or politician has yet accused North Korea of aggression against Ukraine. The actions of North Korea lie within the legal framework of international treaties and conventions.

This is also a lie - yours or the media, where did you get it from. A Russian man cannot get a government job if he does not have at least one of these documents: a master's degree, a doctor's degree, a certificate of registration with the military registration and enlistment office (only confirmation of registration), a military ID (this can be a confirmation of service, a confirmation of alternative service in hospitals or nursing homes, or a mark of unfitness for military service due to health). Not every young man in Russia is required to undergo military training - a bachelor, masters and doctors are exempt from training during their studies, and masters and doctors are also exempted after completing their studies at universities. People are also exempted from compulsory military service for religious reasons and for pacifist beliefs - for this, there is an alternative service as orderlies in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as in state services for home care of the elderly. In addition, naturally, those unfit for health reasons are exempted from military service. Another category is fathers of 3 or more children, and fathers of at least one child raising a child alone. On average, about 30% of the male population serves in the military by conscription in each generation. Nobody cares about proof of military service outside of state job. Commercial companies and NKO do not care about proof of military service.

Lies. Pure propaganda lies. I will assume that you either did not understand (I want to believe in this version), or deliberately distort the facts. In Russia, there are 2 types of military personnel: conscripts and contract soldiers. For each of these 2 types, the law determines the conditions of service. Conscripts are called up for 12 months and are trained in military affairs in training military units. The law determines that such service should take place as close to home as possible. Sending a conscript to combat units is a criminal offense. Sending a conscript to serve outside of Russia without declaring martial law in the country is also a criminal offense, even if the conscript is not fighting, but simply guarding an army warehouse far from the front line. Military commissariats are responsible for conscription, they are also responsible for recruiting contract soldiers. From 2022 to the present, 67 cases of conscripts being sent to combat units are known. 67 criminal cases were opened and officers of the commissariats lost their ranks and suffered criminal punishment. Contract soldiers are the second category. The condition for concluding a contract is mandatory military service by conscription in the past and the presence of a military specialty. Without this, it is impossible to conclude a contract. Contract soldiers make up more than half of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. This was the case before 2014, and it is the case now. Officers are the personnel of the armed forces. Only contract soldiers and officers can take part in combat operations.

This again is pure speculation and propaganda of American nuclear militarism: From day 1 (December 7, 1941) to day 1366 (September 2, 1945), the US lost in the war with Japan 111,606 people. During the entire war, the US lost almost 2 times less than your minimum "hundreds of thousands", which implies at least 2 hundred thousand. Therefore, "hundreds of thousands" is an obvious exaggeration and propaganda hyperbole to justify the barbaric nuclear bombing of the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only purpose of the bombing was intimidation and a demonstration of force. Exactly the same barbaric was the bombing of Dresden by the British in 1945, who used incendiary bombs in such quantities that a firestorm developed in the city, burning the city along with the population in whole streets - the temperature was above 1000 degrees Celsius.

And I don't worry about them: since there is no forced mobilization in Russia, and all the fighters voluntarily went to the conflict zone and signed a contract, I consider it their personal business. They went there knowing the risks, the amount of compensation, insurance and privileges that await them at the end of the contract. Who makes sense to worry about - the Ukrainians forcibly driven by the Zelensky regime - they have no choice. In Ukraine, there is forced mobilization, since there are not enough idiots to die for the Zelensky regime, fanatics are a few percent, the rest are driven to the front by force. But Ukraine had the opportunity to avoid this after the conflict began - at the peace talks in Istanbul in the spring of 2022. This could have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.

No, this "sad loss" is the result of the barbaric American nuclear bombing of the civilian population of Japanese cities. And, what is remarkable, even those historians who claim that this bombing accelerated the capitulation of Japan do not go further and do not dare to claim that it was necessary and inevitable. Since then, the United States is the only country in the world that has used a nuclear bomb on a civilian population to establish itself as the world's policeman.

Forum hasn't such function. Nobody of users may do it, but admins.

That's clear bullshit and western propaganda. As of Feb 2025, the Hiroshima survivor memorial register holds 339,227 names of confirmed victims. https://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/shisei/toukei/1006109/1027849/1027850/1017156.html P.S. Oh, I see. I wrote "each". It is wrong. there should be "together".

No. It is 100% technical issue. 1970 is year which operating systems will add to data base for to fill calendar field, if original data is corrupted. I think it happened at time of board migration or update.

Because each bombing - August 6 and August 8 - brought more victims to the world than the Nanjing Massacre. Because the US has not yet apologized for these bombings, even at the level of Japan's apology for the Nanjing Massacre.

Yeah, it sounds funny, but currently Rosatom ("Russian Atom" state corporation) controls 74% of world construction portfolio of Nuclear Power Plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom , almost rest amount is in hands of Chinese state corporation. West control is close to zero. Of course, these stations became 100% dependable from uranium supply from Russia.

There was no race: the USSR simply waited for the Americans to do all the preparatory work and stole the plans with the help of the Rosenbergs. They quickly built the bomb and already in 1949 conducted the first test. And, what is remarkable, once the first in bomb production, the USA is now completely dependent on Russian enriched uranium. The dependence of the US energy industry on this uranium is so high that it was removed from sanctions immediately in the first sanctions package of 2022.