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good news as they still have a lot to catch up with

Surprisingly perhaps when in Thailand I do take a shower right away and ask boys I'm hosting to do the same.

Moses, relax . We know all that already. Medvedev wasn't warming seat for Putin when he was president , he was elected by loving Russian population who somehow 4 years later lost that love and decided they love Putin even better.

they could have been . Problem is that in dictatorships or countries where one can be jailed for "offending head of state " , ahem there's no way of verifying that love. It could be real , it could be fabricated. Recall October 1989, whole East Berlin is celebrating 40th anniversary of DDR waving and smiling at Honecker. Three weeks later wall was opened and Erich send packing to Chile, no doubt few tears were shed.

of course Moses is not stupid. He is smart and knows what it takes to live and prosper in his country. Very few people want to share Navalny's fate and everybody knows that solyanka and salo tastes much better than bullet or polonium

Peter, relax. One doesn't need Wikipedia to know what day is coming after Sunday

1. nothing to be proud of if majority support is true 2.without reliable way of verifying how we can say that he is supported my majority ? I suspect that much more people in Russia support Putin than believes election of there are fair. Chances are most prisoners in Auschwitz when asked what they think about Dr. Mengele would answer it's best doctor they ever had. 3.In most countries whoever is in charge is leader of minority when we count those who did not vote and those who voted against. World strives to be North Korea but it's long march I venture to say before most societies reach such enviable lever of adoration of their leaders.

everybody welcomed as long as they behave

I wouldn't , promise !

whole nation allowing such mayhem has mental health issue as a nation

Where's problem ? Kostik posts in English, only posts he quotes are translated into Russian, probably automatically but rest assured translations are correct (I speak and read the language ) and it's easy to identify source quoted

because they can, luxury not available to citizens of many countries

still they have chance to have their say

time to join EU, see how Central European countries were lifted up after joining

at least Americans have chance of voting him out. What chance Russians have other than waiting for God or some strangler to act ?.

Perhaps world would be served better if he had

Anti war piece coming from peace loving country of Russia who would never thought about invading other country if there are small babies there and if her dissidents have small children , instead of being imprisoned or poisoned the are getting state paid villa on balmy shores of the White Sea.

no consolation to 18 dead and their families but at least some sense of closure for survivors

nothing wrong with being naïve

Do you mean they don't speak English or Thai indeed? I wonder if BBB still have that extortionate 1000 baht off fee they quoted me in May?

Hope UNESCO will not remove Foodland's World Heritage status because new neighbour

feel sorry for people living nearby and there's plenty of those as CM airport is very close to the city core. But as we commented in Jomtien thread, Asians seem to like noise

have a nice trip and don't forget about us here

shock for me

on another had they pack bar with customers night after night so they must be doing something right and boys must like that formula for one reason or other as they are aplenty. One of BBB boys I asked told me that they are free to remove tops and still only 3 used that freedom. I'm with you that I don't see any attractiveness in paying to watch fully dressed guys but I'm not running that business