Comments by "dvv" (@dvv18) on "NFKRZ" channel.

  1. Mila is a darling. Her rendition of the American accent in Russian is hilarious 😁 Just in case for those not in the know: Russian is Mila's native language, she speaks it perfectly IRL (albeit with a typical Southern Russian/Ukrainian accent), and it certainly takes her artistic chops to sound like a stereotypical American when speaking Russian.
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  2. Fun fact: the camel is right at home there. It's an Asian ("Bactrian") camel from the steppes just south of Chelyabinsk.
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  3. Roman: it's not even cold actually. Also Roman: it's so cold I'd better take a bus.
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  4. Apart from the obvious American accent, her Russian is perfect.
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  5.  @boii6569  And he makes mistakes like a real language speaker does 😁
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  6. Teaching a Russian about Georgian food is like teaching a Brit about curry or a German about Döner.
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  7.  @golovastik.mp3  Yes, it's on the city's coat of arms.
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  8.  @questionmark3219  They probably dgaf.
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  9.  @Beezy1337  Yeah, but unless you yourself are ready to pave the way for Tiananmen-like tanks with your own body, your musings ain't worth shit.
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  10. Just wait a bit until the shit starts melting…
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  11.  @imyarek  That's what all refugees say. Initially.
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  12.  @libertarianwarrior4898  That's vodka, not architecture.
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  13. Бля. Как мне теперь это отслышать… Anyway, fun fact: the Big Ring is not even complete yet, it's not even a ring…
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  14. Russians use the Korean version of instant ramen called "doshirak".
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  15.  @Hand-in-Shot_Productions  Brits: Motörhead Russians: Мотёрхед (motyorhed)
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  16. Well, the Russian word for ”mulled wine" is "глинтвейн" ("glintvein"), which was borrowed 300 years ago from the then German "glühend Wein". So…
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  17. That would mean there's a military coup in Russia.
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  18. And yet it's the SPb politicians who profess the most visceral hatred to all things "unchristian". And most of all — to feminists and LGBTQetc. Go figure…
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  19. Can you seriously imagine any Georgian in his or her right mind utter the submissive bullshit like "don't pick on us, we're simple people here and are not guilty of anything"? Gawd… You know nothing about nothing.
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  20.  @ksweet696  It hasn't taken hold as a Christmas theme in Russia at all. It's really a western (or even more specifically US) phenomenon.
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  21.  @vedser  Ukraine certainly banned Russian men aged 16 to 60 from entering the country in 2018. Not sure if the ban has been lifted since. Russia, OTOH, never had a ban like that, and Ukrainian visitors, refugees, and Gastarbeiter can enter and — if they don't draw the regime's ire — leave the country as they please. Covid restrictions, of course, apply.
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  22. Cringe
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  23. I dunno, Canada seems pretty empty, too. Anybody know, why they all have to huddle along the US border? 🤔
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  24. Afghanistan. No, wait…
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  25. Damn, Laura, where were you in 2020 when all airlines canceled flights… You coulda helped me to make them stick to their Chicago Convention obligations and make them fly me wherever I needed…
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  26. It's like the rape child of le style Empire, the Fascist (or downtown Washington DC, if you will) Stripped Classicism, and Gotham Art Deco — having a bad trip. Hence the Russian name for it: "сталинский ампир" ("Le style Empire Staliniste").
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  27. [makes angry Southern noises]
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  28. dafuk...
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  29.  @matejkazbunda4769  Nothing to do with the Legion, really — it is rarely mentioned in Russia, it's almost a taboo. It's just when Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka was translated to Russian in late 1920s, it fit well into the Soviet "anti-imperialist" propaganda on the one hand (and, of course, Hašek was a communist and even a Red Army commander for a time), and incidentally, it turned out a good book on the other. The brave soldier became a popular character. But it was back in the good old Soviet times. Right now it's mostly a prop in beer commercials and such. I really doubt Hašek is read as much nowadays.
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  30.  @oksana8297  Nobody remembers all the words if they don't use them all the time. It's got nothing to do with the accent, prosody, and all that.
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  31. There's no such thing as too much money.
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  32. How about not just being morally indignant, but going to Russia to help them organize the resistance? Can you do that? Or complaining about the quality of infotainment on YouTube is the limit of your moral indignation?
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  33.  @steven-k.  Pfizer and Moderna are completely ineffective against Omicron, too. Take a guess how I know that.
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  34. A minha amiga tem uma banheira no apartamento que aluga em Tbilissi por apenas $500 por mês.
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  35.  @unreleasedcentral2179  That's your typical Russian street ca. 150 years back, from Helsinki to Vladivostok.
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  36.  @dannydanny2789  Where I live, they often build apartment highrises with the lower three–four above–ground levels as a parking garage. No need to infringe on playgrounds and such.
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  37. Pobeda is owned by Aeroflot, but it's run as a completely separate business.
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  38.  @dochka  Well, about that. Peasants were forced to live in those communities, even after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. The Imperial government eventually realized the ineffectiveness of this setup and started a series of capitalist reforms which culminated in the Stolypin reforms in the beginning of the XX century. A part of those reforms was the drive to colonize Siberia — with railways built, big chunks of land given to individual families, and subsidies from the government to settlers. And it was also focused on individual farms and homesteads.
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  39. Well, the stations are closed for entry 1am to 5:30am, but the last trains depart shortly after 1am and run the full length of their lines. So technically she might still end up at Pr.Vernadskogo at 2am.
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  40. They first followed Ataturk's lead and accepted the Latin script, but then a certain mustachioed Georgian decided it didn't look right, so they had to change to Cyrillic.
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  41. OTOH, a direct flight from LED to CEK takes less than 3 hours. So unless you're badly aerophobic and/or on a really tight budget, take a plane. I assume you're not much of a railway enthusiast tho.
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  42.  @mariiazakharova6408  Anything is better than that piece of old Soviet shit Russia is having for the national anthem now. And it's not like there were no good alternatives — for a little post-Soviet while, a pretty decent piece by Mikhail Glinka (another Russian great) was used as the anthem. But then the old KGB guard firmly settled in the Kremlin, and it was swapped out for that stalinist crap we have now.
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  43.  @servantofaeie1569  I understand your "English T before R sounds like CH, so its Чрамп" very well. And i understand you don't get that to a Russian, the generic Russian "чр" is very different from the generic British or American "tr". And like I said, it's a common mistake for non-natives like you seem to be.
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  44.  @paulthomas8262  Not "totally", but of course, it's not exactly the same. In fact, if you even take two random khinkalnias just in Moscow alone, they'll differ from each other. So yeah.
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  45. How the f am I seeing so many of them then?
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  46. He kinda did. And the buildings are still used for their original purposes, be it a university campus building with auditoriums, labs, and dormitories, office, hotel, or residential.
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  47. Mwell, the English phrase you used is a good translation of the corresponding Portuguese one. Russians, OTOH, are a bit more specific as to what your final position wrt the dick should be.
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  48.  @PMan1998  So you're just a nobody lecturing a Russian YouTuber with 941K subscribers how to stand up against Putin. Gotcha. You know how they call people like you in Russia? "Хуй с горы".
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  49. Успехов на дне морском
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  50. Here we go…  @kushtalin9180 , Armenia did that like 25 years earlier.
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  51. It's alright, just throw your knickers in the washer, and they'll be as good as new.
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  52. Uhm… Sightseeing in the Metro is a common thing among tourists in Moscow — with tour guides and everything…
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  53.  @KP6..  Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was his nickname in school. Good thing he didn't grow up in Britain…
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  54. Cuddling up with Alinchik and Fidel is much better than breaking your leg on iced-over stairs.
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  55. He's got a video about how he's already dodged the draft.
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  56. Wow. Spoken like a true Stalinist.
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  57.  @remarker1233  Good thing you're not in Azerbaijan anymore. It surely bumped up the median IQ in the country significantly.
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  58. There's more than one way to smuggle drugs skin a teddy bear, you know…
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  59. And it's the only place in the city where you don't see the building itself (pardon my French) 😁
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  60.  @Jasonforchrist90  steamy -5°C
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  61. Gulag ("Main Directorate of [penal] Camps") was a government office, akin to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons. And you don't need to leave Moscow to end up in Matrosskaya Tishina
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  62.  @iihamed711    What are you talking about? Russia has been Old-Testament homophobic since at least the time the fratricidal rapist St.Vladimir "The Great" Sviatoslavich forced Christianity on Rus's subjects. That is for 1000+ years. Consensual sex between adult males was a criminal offence in the USSR on the same level as rape.
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  63. How much of your income are you donating to Ukraine?
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  64. YouTube in its infinite wisdom just killed my comment with a link, so you're on your own: just type купить ромовую бабу in your Yandex search, will ya?
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  65. No.
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  66.  @AcidifiedMammoth  That's exactly what I'm saying — it's a piece of Soviet stalinist crap.
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  67. And his thinking about them will help them or anybody else how?
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  68.  @servantofaeie1569  It doesn't.
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  69.  @servantofaeie1569  It doesn't. I am a native Russian speaker. And you're confusing the Russian "ч" sound with the Ukrainian "ч" or Polish "cz". Don't worry, you're not alone — lots of non-native speakers do that.
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  70.  @servantofaeie1569  I'm very much in position as I've been living in naturally English-spreading environment for almost 30 years. And I know full well the difference between the voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate and the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate. That is "T" in "Trump" is clearly distinct from "ч" in "чрамп" or "чамп" to any functional Russian ear.
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  71.  @jjjiiddppeew1810  Ah well, what can you do… It's certainly not the very worst thing Russia has to cope with.
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  72. Elections fra.. Look, Russians! BLM rio.... Look, Russians! Biden administration failing in every whi... Look, Russians! A perfect distraction, don't you think?
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  73. Nigga got sick flow. Ипатцо нынешним.
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  74. At best, they don't care. At worst, Roman will be officially declared a foreign agent, and YouTube will be ordered to cancel his account.
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  75.  @AleksandrBekhtin  беспесды, чувак, беспесды
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  76. Chill. Those who can afford that, also pay taxes to the government and its affordable housing projects. Win-win.
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  77. I think you're a coward calling Roman a coward — and not signing up for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion yourself.
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  78. You have no idea…
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  79.  @synsam12345  Who told you it's at the brink of war?
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  80.  @synsam12345  You're deflecting and not answering my questions. Typical… Ah well, I wasn't expecting much from your type, anyway.
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  81. Roman swears like a school kid…
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  82. Small (Georgia's population is less than that of Saint Petersburg) ethnically homogeneous (~90% ethnically Georgian) countries often see an influx of foreigners as an existential threat. It's a tough balancing act for the country to become a thriving cosmopolitan digital hub — and stay Georgia at the same time. Besides, Putin's Russia is just over the ridge, and having a sizeable Russian minority without having Russian as an official state language seems Putin's favorite casus belli.
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  83. Myeah, well, TTYTT, "Muscovite" is a cringe word invented in the XVI/XVII centuries Poland to claim that "Moscow is not Rus", and therefore, the Moscow Rus princes and Russian tsars cannot claim supremacy over what once was Rus. But us Muscovites don't care much about how others call us in their dialects 😁 See how far it's gotten them Poles anyway…
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  84. That's how it is in Moscow - pensioners ride free on public transport. In fact, as a part of the anti-COVID measures, the mayor's office would suspend this privilege to discourage babushkas straying too far from home.
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  85. 🇰🇿 Роман проёпси — это было казахское телевидение.
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  86. He got jabbed with the most potent vaccine. He's good.
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  87. Magic
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  88.  @slc679  There's more to architecture than glass shards, einstürzende khrushchovkas, or stalinist monstrosities, so I still have better choices than that (maybe not in Moscow anymore, as the reindeer herder of a mayor systematically and viciously eliminates anything and everything of aesthetic and historical value there). And I'll stop being what I want and when I want, thankyouverymuch.
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  89. km vs. км
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  90.  @carultch  I see the diff right away. So did Roman.
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  91. Russians are not afraid to respond "FJB!" either.
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  92.  @cfonde  Wow. You're good.
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  93. You go to Russia and stand up against Putin. You ain't going? What a wuss…
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  94. There's quite a bit more to Russian native accents than just g/ɣ or akanye/okanye. Say, it takes about half a second of Roman's speaking Russian to tell he's not from Moscow (or St.Pete), or Rostov-on-Don, or Rostov the Great 😉
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  95. He's from Chelyabinsk, so…
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  96.  @heartheartheartheartheartheart  "People from the Caucasus" I guess.
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  97. A Russian living overseas can get a Gosuslugi account and, when in Russia, get a QR code with a negative PCR test at a certified local lab — valid for a couple-three days. The latest news I've heard is that a good antibody test will now get you a QR code for six months or so. No idea how or if it works for non-citizens. International travel is generally a pain in the ass. My CDC card (no QR, of course) worked fine in Austria last fall. But our friends were initially denied entry to a restaurant in Lisbon with their CDC cards a week ago. It took some persuasion and a reminder that they'd been patronizing the joint for years to let them in.
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  98.  @treble8921  It's relatively easy to tell them apart — when they start speaking. Languages and even accents are a dead giveaway. Their names, too.
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  99.  @Born2kill102  Do you have a detailed breakdown of the Tyvan statistics? Which part of those murders are domestic violence?
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  100.  @oksana8297  You don't know anything about me, ma'am. Not even if I'm being defensive 😁 And we all have our accents — even native speakers who have spent all their lives in their native environments. And yes, my native Russian accent is very different from the one Mila inherited from Чернівці/Черновцы/Cernăuți/טשערנאוויץ‏‎ or whatever spelling is en vogue now.
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  101.  @jackalski  Molotov/Ribbentrop, as well as the Winter War and the Manchurian campaign are not a big secret, and they are considered a part of WWII in Russia. Of course, you cannot milk much jingoistic propaganda out of it — just like, say, you cannot milk much out of the Polish and Ukrainian antisemitic atrocities during the Polish-Ukrainian conflict right after the collapse of the Russian Empire or during WWII. Or the fact that Ukraine still holds on to some Polish, Czech/Hungarian, and Romanian territories courtesy of the same Molotov/Ribbentrop and later Yalta agreements — all with the direct involvement of one Iossif V. Dzhugashvili a.k.a. "Stalin" a.k.a. the second most prolific murderer of the XX century. It's just that some history is less convenient than other, that's all. And while Georgians valiantly fighting and dying against the Nazi Germany and "for Motherland, for Stalin" is still held sacred in Georgia, there is not a lot of popular demand to commemorate the 1939 partition of Poland there nowadays.
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  102. I saw a live video from Dedaena Park (დედაენის ბაღი) on the Mtkvari earlier today — hundreds of Georgians, happy faces, happy families, not a single Ukrainian flag in sight. What gives?
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  103.  @jacquecasket233  You don't say…
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  104.  @pshemko__  But you're not Russian, so you're sleeping well, having fun and partying without even going down to Georgia? Despite millions of refugees streaming over the (unfenced) border into Poland and cruise missiles hitting closer and closer to that border? Do I get you right?
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  105.  @pshemko__  You might want to talk to a professional about your paranoid delusions. And me, I'm just asking how your sleep is, and how your everyday life is going. Of course, I wouldn't mind you telling us here how you personally contribute to helping the refugees with your time, effort, and money, but I wouldn't mind if you keep it private either.
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  106. Don't hold your breath.
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  107. Marry him and get him a green card this way.
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  108. Tough luck. From my decades-long observations, Russian-Americans are mostly 1) religious and conservative or 2) non-religious and still conservative (but not fanatical enough to reject their "progressive/liberal" kids) or 3) when left of center, don't care about their Russianness much, if at all (that's usually the kids).
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  109.  @misc.7659  FWIW, don't fixate too much on trying to find "your people" who are "yours" in every possible way. If you share some strong interest with somebody — and you're not revolting to each other — enjoy it. Things don't have to be all, as Russians say, "в одном флаконе".
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  110. You must be new here. He's already dodged the draft and made a video about it.
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  111. Long shot. He's not a mass media celebrity, and agitated citizenry will be after him with pitchforks when his Dubai videos turn up in the process.
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  112. Funnily enough, a friend of mine (incidentally, an Israeli) did that — and happily smoked that hash in Moscow. But yeah. Don't do that, boys and girls. Just don't.
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  113. Pray tell us all about your own experiences standing up against an oppressive government's tanks in Tiananmen or elsewhere.
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  114. Ты вообще догоняешь, откуда Роман в эту Москву приехал?
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  115. "Niderlandov" (Нидерландов) is genitive, it's not used in Russian like that.
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  116.  @plebestrian9323  Alcohol was there alright. But they make an alcohol-free kid version of the drink, too. You know, like there's beer, and there's alcohol-free "beer".
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  117. When you go first and show him the way.
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  118. Who told you about those 19%? Gallup?
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  119. None. He's got no taxable income anymore.
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  120. Wow. You've spent at least 30 years in hibernation, but lookie now — you've discovered YouTube already. Doing good, gramps, doing really good.
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  121. Well, Russia just doesn't share this western Christmas obsession with the Nutcracker, is all.
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  122.  @david_walker_esq  I'm pretty sure his opinion is right there in the video: to him, it's a part of that wholesale adoption of western Christmas extravaganza onto the post-Soviet Russian soil. With some minor tweaks, of course.
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  123. Как русский американец, половину жизни живущий там, а половину — там, давно заметил, что усреднённый русский предпочитает заметно менее острую пищу, чем усреднённый американец. Конечно, наверняка есть русские, которые пьют шрирачу вместо компота, но в массе своей — нет. Так шта…
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  124. Underground garages were not in vogue in Moscow back then. In fact, they're not in vogue in Moscow even now 😕
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  125. People are fleeing to Moscow and St.Pete — that's where the money is.
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  126.  @remarker1233  Millions of Russians have visited Georgia "under other circumstances". Why do you think Roman is so much different?
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  127.  @zizmares  your unbridled and utterly offensive white cis-male transphobia.
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  128. It's alright if you're a lipstick lesbian. Things might get really hairy if you're butch.
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  129. Yes, Roma! Whatever you do, don't ever fly with the Polish Air Force!
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  130.  @hairytentacle3924  The cannons would quickly rectify that.
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  131. I obviously don't know what prevents you from visiting Russia, but whatever it is — I'm sorry.
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  132. And yet he's not even a third of the way across the country 😉
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  133.  @dochka  Well, no. Cities in Siberia didn't form as agricultural communities. They were formed as trading centers around Cossack and military outposts, also as industrial and mining centers. When given an option, Russian peasants would not coalesce naturally back into obschina (a.k.a. mir). It took the kollektivizatsiya to viciously herd them back together.
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  134.  @ilarious5729  Canada has 3.8 persons per km². So?
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  135. I had the exact same map on a wall in my Grandad's house — and yes, Kiwiland was there.
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  136. @Dave Hardy Why wouldn't he? To paraphrase an old Russian joke, "I see you're not a Khokhol" (gawd I hate this transliteration thing)
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  137. Let us know how it goes in the Foreign Legion camp in Lviv when you get there.
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  138. Really? No way!
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  139.  @jeroen2218  Well, I've only been to Amsterdam around the Koninginnedag and in early September, so I don't know 😁 In my Russian hometown (so very not SPb 😁), we don't have a lot of waterways, so even tho they freeze over much more regularly, we don't skate there. But! Huge areas in public parks and even city squares are turned into public skating rinks, so we are good nevertheless 😁
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  140.  @EatMyShortsAU  Sacha Baron Cohen walks into Kazakhstan…
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  141. Of course. The R and CH sounds!
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  142. A colab with the Mandili girls! What a thought…
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  143.  @sarahd.2677  I doubt that. I prefer more substantive ways of trying to make a difference than hot-airing in the streets safely away from the Tiananmen and the Red Square.
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  144.  @pshemko__  And yet you cannot keep yourself from coming back here again and again and again. Hmmm 🤔
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  145.  @flaviop5472  It wasn't one of them Sterligov's bakeries, was it?
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  146. Dead-morose-bus
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  147. In Russian, "pizda" is often used instead of "pizdec" now. So things are getting easier little by little 😁
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  148. It's an old Russian tradition. Just look up the big names like Rachmaninoff, Sikorsky, Nabokov...
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  149. Yeah, they still don't stop for pedestrians there, Roman might want to get more situationally aware while in Georgia…
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  150. If you're religious, yes. You go to church services and all that. But the fur tree, presents, Grampa Frost, and all that brouhaha — it's for the New Years Eve.
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  151. Are you sure Roman has ever lived in Ukraine?
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  152. Отучаемся говорить за всех. Для меня оно прекрасно работало и работает.
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  153. Roman, please make a video about what Russians think about the US and NATO activity along Russian borders.
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  154.  @AcidifiedMammoth  My nickname is dvv, I'm Russian, and your opinion is just crap.
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  155. It's a schmaltzy German fairytale, put on music by a Russian classical (in the Western sense of the word) composer. And the only other thing Russian there is an exotic doll (Spanish, Arab, and Chinese dolls are there, too). They even felt like they had to "russify" the ballet by changing the main character's name to "Masha" in 1914.
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  156. Internet!
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  157. Every Czech in the comments: Švejk! Every Russian: Eh… The beer dude…
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  158. Turkey, Armenia, the ex-Soviet Central Asian "stans", Dubai, Serbia, maybe India, and a couple-three others are still viable. But God only knows for how long…
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  159. No person shall be discriminated against on the ground of race, color, or national origin (The United States of America, 1964).
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  160. You'll be mostly good with 20-30 somethings. Otherwise, Russian is more useful. Or do the boss move — learn Georgian.
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  161. To paraphrase the western media, "how can you call it Reich? There are so many Jewish oligarchs around Putin!"
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  162. Georgia is really serious about its Christianity, but seriously — from what I've seen here, Roman is much more at home in Georgia than back in Russia. The only (and really big) problem is him not speaking the language.
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  163. There was a huge number of reasons to emigrate from Moscow in the 90s. And many did, yours truly among them. Still a Muscovite through and through 😁
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  164. Nah, it's pretty much who gets to siphon federal funds — same people get to supply the shit all over the country.
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  165. To a degree. I know for a fact though, that Netflix tries to detect VPN users and cut them off. Also, if Putin keeps insisting on being Putin, there will be a government-mandated clampdown on VPN traffic — first with prominent providers like NordVPN and friends, then on any traffic that looks like VPN.
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  166. I'm pretty sure they used to do that in Moscow backyards 50 or so years ago.
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  167.  @IcefightFX  If it's a credit card, you call your card's bank and dispute the charge (or do it in your bank app). The charge is stricken off your bill, and it's up to the merchant to prove the charge has been legit. I haven't had a single problem with my credit cards here in the US in all of my life. Or in the EU, or Russia, or Georgia for that matter.
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  168. I t i s j u s t y o u .
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  169. You speak the wrong English language.
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  170. As a born and raised Muscovite, I hate when замкадыши ("beyond-the-beltway-ers") take the piss out of our accent 😜
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  171. I've heard it different. It's not like legal legal, but the police doesn't care much. They still do raids on night clubs when they feel like it though. Or so I've heard.
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  172.  @FasadiAguriDekoratiuliAguri  Georgia is not Russia, Georgia is a democratic European country, right? You get the taxes and affordable housing programs the Georgians vote for.
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  173. Russia is a big place. There's like five times the population of Lithuania in Moscow alone. And guess what, my experience is tap water in Moscow is pretty safe and not bad to taste. Here where I live in the US, OTOH, you really want to use filtered or bottled water — and it's in a large metropolitan area on the East Coast. There are people who say that the USA is a third-world country, but you're not one of them, are you?
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  174. Some people call it "curling"…
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  175. I just wonder why you're using Russian on this channel where everyone understands English. Seems like you get your kicks from offending people by using Russian, don't you?
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  176.  @aleksandermacias5432  So let me see how you think it works… Russians are supposed to trawl the comment sections of English-language channels for little gems of wisdom in Russian, right? What a concept…
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  177. What? Georgia was already there when the English weren't even conquered by the Normans.
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  178.  @romeisfallingagain  I appreciate you wanting to talk about me, but no, I'm not interested in your advances.
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  179. @M J And as they say in Russian, there's also elderberry in the garden, and an uncle in Kiev.
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  180. It gets boring after a week or so. Just look at Bald&Bankrupt.
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  181. QR code on any media will do — paper or otherwise.
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  182. Никто и не круёт. Чо орать-то.
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  183. Puhleeze... DC is a quaint little town, nowhere near the megapolises like LA, NYC, or Moscow. I mean the NW quadrant - not sure you want to venture outside that part of the town.
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  184. Ой всё.
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  185.  @pacershark452  !!!! Да ты сам засланный казачок из Ольгина. Хyле тут.
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  186. Russia allowed it after the 80s.
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  187. Webster is a joke.
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  188. It's about same, yes.
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  189. It's the only border crossing between the Republic of Georgia and the Russian Federation at this time.
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  190. Older people can speak Russian, youngsters speak English (at least they think they do).
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  191.  @RhythmAddictedState  Some, yes, of course. Sometimes, when we asked hipsters working at their hipster boutiques if they preferred English or Russian, they'd choose Russian. But seriously, if you plan to stay in the country for any prolonged period of time, you'd better start learning Georgian now.
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  192. In fact, lots of Georgians have been working in Russia, sending lots of money back home. Now, with that bank sanctions thing, they cannot do that anymore. Disclaimer: I've seen that on Al Jazeera, or Euronews, or something like that. The only friends I have in Georgia are my fellow Americans who've been quite happy with their $500/mo rents until now.
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  193. He is. And Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, in case you wonder.
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  194. They don't.
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  195.  @synsam12345  Short attention span much? They don't think about the shit you've asked about.
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  196.  @synsam12345  How many of them are Russian?
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  197.  @synsam12345  No, it's not my point. And no, I didn't ask about their ethnicity.
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  198.  @synsam12345  My point is to get you to divulge your sources of information and to find out why you need Russian corroboration for them.
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  199.  @synsam12345  Go on…
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  200. Oh those snowflake feelings…
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  201. Also, Xhosa?
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  202. Maybe it's you projecting your own insecurities and your painful longing to be cool? And Roman just talks this way? BTW, his occasional (and natural) Russian is way dirtier than his monologues in English.
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  203.  @torontoash45  Ooooh, changing subjects from "being cool" to "being decent". Tsk tsk tsk, more signs of insecurities…
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  204. They are. And they do.
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  205. Do you follow European news at all? A whole bunch of EU countries are hell bent on revoking and banning Schengen visas for all Russians. There's even serious talk in the Baltic countries about revoking permanent residency status for Russians living there. Other EU countries are giving in and making getting visas as hard as possible for Russians. I bet you a euro (at the current exchange rate to the dollar) that Roman won't be able to visit the EU before he completely loses his hair. Or the US for that matter.
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  206.  @markenochsambleben656  You can pray all you want, just don't hold your breath.
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  207. I wonder how you have gotten the impression Roman is a talking head politologist kind of guy…
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  208. There's this YouTube channel, Geography Now. Find their video about Georgia — that's exactly what they're saying. And not just about the writing system 😎
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  209.  @Touhou-forever  Nope. Why?
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  210.  @Touhou-forever  Nothing to apologize for, all good 😊
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  211. The only people who GAF are history buffs and monarchistically inclined ultra-nationalists. The public in general don't give the aforementioned fuck at all.
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  212. How is it good for Roman, again? Whatever he has in a Russian bank — in rubles or otherwise — is just some numbers in his bank app, not real money he can use in real life.
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  213.  @センナ-h4c  News flash for you — he cannot buy anything with his rubles.
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  214. Top up with what?
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  215.  @vincenthaegebaert1854  What money?
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  216. It's a bit more expensive.
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  217. Fun fact: they demolished a huge Orthodox temple to clear the site and even started the construction, but they didn't have the technology to build the thing on the soft ground next to the river back then. So they had to stop and resorted to building a huge open-air heated swimming pool, which became the Muscovites' favorite place to get head lice all through the Soviet period. Then, of course, the Soviet Union was no more, the KGB became born-again Orthodox Christian, they demolished the pool and restored the temple.
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  218. Ля вибрасьён са моле гош этюн гранд синь!
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  219.  @Rangefinder02  You must be new here 🤔
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  220.  @tuub1281  Mainland China is not exactly a separate country, and worse than that — it is governed by a totally illegitimate regime.
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  221. It's Korobeiniki , you fool.
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  222.  @vedser  Just wait for the next flare-up.
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  223.  @vedser  Just wait for the next flare-up.
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  224.  @Hand-in-Shot_Productions  It's not. "Volapuk encoding" could be anything from the Library of Congress transliteration scheme to this weird-ass OCR mishap you refer to. And the latter was used primarily by clueless foreigners, while Russians preferred something like the former.
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  225. He didn't.
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  226.  @rompstar  Not the ones I know.
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  227. Hope is not a strategy.
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  228. He cannot, he's not in Germany and won't be there anytime soon. And his cards won't work there anyway.
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  229. Or a ravine.
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  230. Which is not even about the Metro 😁
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  231. Pix of you stopping tanks with your shopping bag or it didn't happen
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  232. Puhleeze… You can get any kind of tortillas for your tacos pretty much anywhere in the US — corn or wheat. And yes, lengua tacos are delicious. And don't discount all kinds of hipster tacos — while not so traditional, those guys are usually good with their stuff.
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  233.  @ЕгорЦыба  Do you seriously want to test the l̶e̶n̶g̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶g̶i̶r̶t̶h̶ depth and breadth of my "western word list"? I don't believe you do.
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  234.  @ЕгорЦыба  Jawohl, mein F̶ü̶h̶r̶e̶r̶ Schatz!
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  235. And before Ivan Vasilyevich Russia was a paragon of compassion, right.
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  236. Why are you doing it here where most of the audience is not Russian? You're just pretending you're fulfilling your responsibility here. Do it instead somewhere where information-deprived Russians can really get your message. Do it for real.
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  237.  @adry7777  I don't know any Russians who don't know the truth. And I doubt you'll find any in this comment section.
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  238. Depends. My experience is tap water in Moscow is pretty decent. Much better than where I live in the US.
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  239.  @sawyerbass4661  In a large metropolitan area choke full of federal contractors and such.
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  240.  @interview1296  These here United States are a big country. I love tap water in NYC, but I need to be b̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ desperately hungover to drink tap water without filtering where I live.
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  241. You're confused. Russia doesn't get money from IMF. Ukraine, OTOH, does.
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  242.  @JonDoe-yc6uz  Guess where that money came from. And why North Korea is not on the list.
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  243. Omg how COULD you skip on the Olivier 😮😁
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  244. Do you prefer angry guys hurting you speaking in the RP accent?
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  245. No.
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  246. I'm pretty sure it's Americans who told you that.
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  247. Yes.
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  248.  @PMan1998  беспесды
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  249. And i thought Lucky Chops and Too Many Zooz were for real… Damn.
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  250. Wanna bet? My €10.00 against your €1.00 it's not happening before he has to leave Georgia in 12 months from now.
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  251. Russians do call it "чек" ("tchek", just like Roman said). Roman often lets "false friends" slip into his English.
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  252. He's talking about what's happening in Russia — people eat snacks and do stuff. And he's not in Ukraine, he knows about Ukraine as much as you do.
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  253. Ебать какие тут интеллектуальные глубины… Pardon my French…
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  254. Your communist country doesn't allow that?! What a shame…
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  255. Just a beer prop.
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  256. Ah, the good old times… BTW, a saying mentioning the Swedes and a certain town in what is now Ukraine is still a part of the Russian language 😁
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  257.  @heartheartheartheartheartheart  Just a quick editorial note: "Caucasian" in English means "white". Particularly in the American English language.
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  258.  @heartheartheartheartheartheart  I meant people from the Caucasus.
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  259. Its being a terrorist and criminal regime still doesn't help Roman with any food and shelter. Do you?
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  260. Gold is just some stupid shiny metal if nobody wants it from you.
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  261.  @xwolf9913  Yeah, like I say, it's a stupid shiny metal. You go learn.
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  262.  @xwolf9913  From little known but gas-rich countries like Qatar, Norway, the United States of America…
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  263. How about you take a financial stand and send a hundred or two or a thousand or so bucks to any of the charities that help the Ukrainians?
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  264.  @aitchtea  So your life savings are not frozen by the Russian and Western governments, and you can spend your money in any way you want. Good for you, keep up the good work.
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  265.  @aitchtea  Roman's accounts are effectively frozen, you know. Are you saying he's the butcher of Bucha?
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  266.  @t0ny1189  B&B makes mistakes in practically every Russian phrase he utters.
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  267. Putin doesn't care about Russians standing up against him — he'll just roll tanks over them, like they do in China. But the US accepts China and doesn't really poke the tiger — they should've accepted Russia in the same way. But now the bodies are piling up, and it will only get worse.
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  268.  @GraV21  Gawd… 1. Gaddafi was in Libya, not Syria — these are two different countries. 2. Gaddafi had already had an armed opposition when shit hit the fan. 3. NATO countries bombed the shit out of Gaddafi in support of the opposition. 4. Bodies are still piling up there. The only point applicable to Russia here is 4.
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  269.  @SantomPh  Your point being?
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  270. Прескриптивистов тут шеймят куда больше. Узбагойдесь уже.
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  271. Russia also has something like that — on the third Sunday of September.
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  272. Oh no...
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  273. More like in Berlin in 2016, but yes.
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  274. ⭐
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  275. Roman used the more familiar term WWII as a shorthand. The monument is, in fact, a memorial to what is known as the Soviet Great Patriotic War, and it indeed lasted from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945. Events surrounding it— the (yet another) partition of Poland in 1939, the Winter War shortly after that, the Manchurian campaign in August of 1945 — are not considered parts of the GPW.
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  276.  @jumpda5  His exact origins are unclear — he could as well have been from Cameroon. But yes, he was black alright.
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  277.  Resistance Front  And the genetic and historical evidence of Gannibal's origins is pretty solid, innit?
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  278. It's an old news and the worst kept Russian secret.
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  279.  @etunamunjishvili  These people are in shock because their whole life was just ruined completely. No money, no job, no homeland anymore. All they have is some cash they managed to pull from their accounts in Russian banks before the West and Putin clamped down on them in unison, and that's it. Even if they want to help Ukrainians in any meaningful way, they just don't have any wherewithal for that. So yeah, kick them out for Putin to make them his serfs and cannon fodder, or being so humanitarian and all, just pack them up into cattle cars and send them out to internment camps in Xinjiang or something.
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  280. ЭмэйзинК
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  281. No. But you can do (almost) anything you want in St.Pete.
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  282. I heard "bloodied". But maybe it's just me…
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  283. Fact: it's got the best capacity utilization among Russian airlines and one of the best worldwide. So your opinion is irrelevant.
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  284. No, they usually don't. There's no need for that, as all Russians know the basics of the Latin alphabet. Translating stuff to other languages might be a problem though. Here's an example I saw in oh so sophisticated Moscow in May this year: "APEROL SYRINGE".
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  285. That's some funny ringing you hear in your ears…
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  286. Half of Russia is not too happy about Putin already. Why would he risk antagonizing the other half with that crap?
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  287. You are.
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  288.  @tinniesealjiji  !
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  289.  @djej6524  You must be new here — Roman has already dodged the draft.
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  290. Depends on which Russian you ask.
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  291.  @makeyyyy7890  Of course there are. Russia is a big country, there are enough people to have all kinds of stupid.
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  292.  @makeyyyy7890  Good for you, American. Good for you. Bless your little heart.
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  293. OMG, you bled when OMON cracked your skull? Or pissed blood when they took care of your kidneys? Man, my sympathies.
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  294. It's TBilisi, and there's no vowel between T and B. Good luck practicing it. And Georgian has no stress — whatever syllables are there, all are equal.
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  295.  @jerry50bmg65  If you want to get really fancy linguistic, look up "consonant clusters in Georgian". Gvprtskvni is a real word in the language.
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  296.  @ებრაელივაჭარი  I'm pretty sure that if he's allowed to stay in Georgia and decides to do so, he'll be speaking Georgian in no time. He seems pretty good at languages.
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  297.  @ებრაელივაჭარი  Well, Mandarin is not a good old Indo-European language either, and yet, AFAIK, Roman is pretty proficient in Mandarin. רעדסטו מאנדארין, שלמה? 😉
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  298. Close enough.
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  299. Dude, you're lucky you don't understand his Russian 😁 And yes, you must. Who cares what you want, anyways.
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  300. Well, they have the best capacity utilization among them all, so they must be doing something right. No?
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  301. Only if it's on steroids.
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  302.  @Sadqueerguy69  herring. Yuck.
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  303. Gun laws are stricter in Russia than even in Australia, so there's little chance of being a victim of a targeted shooting at a town square for some random Aussie tourist. You may end up in lock-up if you participate in some protest action though, so try to avoid those.
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  304. That's the go-to place for most people. A notch above Diksi.
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  305. How is it going for you there in the Foreign Legion?
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  306. It's not.
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  307. Check out Bald&Bankrupt's videos.
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  308. No.
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  309. It's not much of a problem in the hip areas of Tbilisi or Batumi. Otherwise, use your phone translator app.
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  310. He got them himself.
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  311. They hear it airtight. They still need to eat, too.
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  312. It's not like it's a rule set in stone. People call their friends whatever they like.
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  313. Huge.
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  314. you don't invade Ukraine
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  315. It's ok, man. Don't be afraid. Just accept who you are. Don't hide from it.
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  316. Covid in Russia — yes, it's a thing. Lockdowns — not so much. BTW, I watched Euronews the other day and they showed how people escape the Netherlands to Belgium to do shopping and have some fun. Sounds like a good idea, no? 😉
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  317. Well, you've let go of your guns pretty easily, so…
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  318. Who cares. He still keeps mixing the US and British vocabs.
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  319. I wonder if you watch Itchy Boots — your fellow Dutch crossed southern Russia on her way from central Asia to Georgia — on her bike. And she's fun to watch, anyway.
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  320. It's a Soviet classic, you can get it anywhere.
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  321. Nah, it's just alright.
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  322. Tijuana is the closest he can get to there. The US of A isn't giving him a visa anytime soon.
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  323. Maybe bc a notorious troll factory worked out of SPb, and Roman thinks there's some connection between it and Gazprom?
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  324. Except he did. Just lookup "Bald Moscow" in your youtube.
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  325. Интернет надо отменить. Или вообще сделать везде Китай — там проблем нет ни с вакцинацией, ни с интернетом.
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  326. Nah. Pilots love Pobeda way better than Ryanair.
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  327. Consular relationships are not exactly rosy between the US and Russia. The State Department has been making it real hard for Russians to come visit here, and, as I've heard Mr. Lavrov say, "reciprocity is the name of the game".
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  328.  @RandomDudeOne  Cuddling up in Prague with your loved ones is still better.
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  329.  @joshualieberman1059  Well, are you his Patreon or something? If not, then WTF?
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  330. You really want to purify it here in NoVa.
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  331. MTA: have a lunatic push a bank exec under a train
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  332. Bye. Oh, you're still here? I thought you were leaving…
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  333. There is one in באָרשט
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  334.  @mysticDchimp  English is really useful in Georgia. Russian, too.
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  335.  @konfigjunior1855  Their presence is so detrimental that Georgia turns out to be one of the very few countries experiencing an economic boom in this world of recession. And where did you see them waving the Russian flag in Georgia?
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  336.  @froglifes6829  If the government doesn't spend the tax money windfall on the poor, it's not the tax-paying Russians fault. Besides, isn't Georgia deoligarchized now? The government should have even more money to help the poor with subsidized housing.
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  337. A brand new Lexus is shitty everywhere now.
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  338.  @unknownentity8256  AFAIK, there's no confusion between Lexus and Bentley in Russia.
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  339. Putin and Zelensky say Putin isn't doing any such thing. So who told you that?
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  340. μολὼν λαβέ
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  341.  @beorlingo  Estonia should be given back to Germany. And Prussia.
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  342. OMG, is that why? Really?! No! And he said it was just because he was Russian…
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  343. With all the free publicity you've gotten with the Djokovic affair — of course, you are 😁
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  344. Bro, you're not in the Borscht Belt anymore.
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  345. I'm originally from Moscow, but live a bit below the Mason-Dixon line. I've been to Quebec several times (Montreal and places due north) in winter — yes, feels like home 😊 A weird accent tho 😁
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  346. It took YouTube just 20 seconds to kill a link to a dictionary entry with a Georgian pronunciation sample… Ok, I'll try to explain — the T is very much there. I suggest you go to Wiktionary, look up თბილისი and listen to the pronunciation sample. The IPA notation is also there.
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  347.  @anaadacosacositas4362  Funnily enough, the linguists reconstruct the original name of the river the city was built on as "Moskū". The original name was most probably picked up by the Slavs who moved in the area in the 700s AD (the Vyatichi, who, by all we know, were an offshoot of the proto-Poles) from the neighboring Baltic tribes (the Golyad/Eastern Galindians), who moved into the area even earlier than that. It took about 600 years for the word to morph first to Moskov' (Московь) and then to Moskva (Москва). And it has stayed like that ever since.
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  348.  @beorlingo  Bringing Poltava back to Russia bit by bit 😁
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  349.  @david_walker_esq  I consider my opinion too important to take your suggestions as to how I should share it into any account at all. Also, Roman is obviously not too keen on sharing his opinion about Mr. Tchaikovsky's oeuvre. So my opinion is the only thing you're stuck here with, at least for a while: Russians are not Christmas-crazy about The Nutcracker It's just a fact of life. Only ballet and musical pros and aficionados give any fuck about it at all. And it's only thanks to the westernization of the winter holidays that it is shoved down the general public's throats. Along with other gay musicians' Christmas music from past centuries — as it was demonstrated in Roman's video, too.
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  350.  @david_walker_esq  I'm certainly not speaking on his behalf here or anywhere else. All I do is I point out what he's already expressed in his video. Plus some related facts of life in Russia. What you think about your comments here is irrelevant. As well as any and all other parts of what you might consider your mental process.
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  351.  @david_walker_esq  ווען די באָבע זאָל האָבן אייער, װאָלט זי געװען אַ זײדע.
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  352. How old do you think a person needs to be to use public transport in Moscow?
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  353. Putin's accent in English has nothing to do with his German skills (and "Kraftwerk" in German sounds nowhere close to Roman's attempt at it). Putin just knows full well he cannot pull off a decent English accent, so he just does whatever is easy for his Russian vocal tract.
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  354. Just read up on how people were fleeing farther and farther away from Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. Or from Russia and the USSR first in the 1920s and then in the late 1940s. That's how it's done.
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  355. One of the most famous sites in St.Pete — the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.
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  356. Georgian girls are as good with their sugaring, waxing, and laser as anybody else. So who cares.
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  357.  @CharlesOffdensen  The myths are Eastern Europeans are pretty stupid and bigoted. Are they really just myths?
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  358.  @judithstuart9631  For all we know, this Kapil person is a tough democracy fighter who braved the Russian National guardsmen face on, got arrested, and now recovers from Novichok watching YouTube from his bunk at a fine Gulag establishment on the Kolyma.
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  359. Because there's "J" in "JDM".
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  360. OMG, don't even start.
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  361. It's neither Russian nor news.
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  362. Yes?
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  363.  @TheVolginator  Well, you might've finally found the right dosage of medicine to make whatever's left of your memory work, but here's a news flash for you: most people don't need that medicine at all.
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  364.  @TheVolginator  Look up the word "sarcasm" in a dictionary. Or ask your mom if you need help with that.
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  365. Do you think people are too far off with all this de Blasio shit?
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  366.  @arrow1414  Oh. Ok.
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  367. No.
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  368. Just check them NYC walk-ups out.
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  369.  @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917  The protests lead to an agreement to hold special elections later in 2014. That was not enough for the ultra-nationalist militias, so they forced the parliament to do that "voting out" — contrary to the agreements between the protesters and the government and to whatever the Constitution allowed. Not to mention the conspicuous presence of said armed militias in the parliament chambers. And "little green men" is something you find in flying saucers. You're confusing them with the "polite men in green" — the Russian troops that prevented a Donbas-style clusterfuck in Crimea when the peninsula finally declared its independence from Ukraine.
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  370. Your transphobia has been reported to YouTube.
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  371. No, пиздец is worse.
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  372. No.
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  373.  @imyarek  By your logic, most of the women and children who left Ukraine for Poland, Romania, Hungary, etc, are not refugees — they are there just temporary. As for his return to Russia within a year — how much do you want to bet?
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  374. A certified aviator. he must be.
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  375. I wouldn't mind having two Balds here (never mind my bandana).
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  376. No, no funny dance moves here.
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  377. 3:08 We have a similar toilet seat kind of building here in Northern Virginia
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  378. It's not.
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  379. Welcome to Tbilisi
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  380. It's a theme from some stupid videogame or something.
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  381.  @stephano_jvr  He hasn't "migrated". He's technically being a tourist in one of the very few countries that still let Russian citizens in. Cut from any meaningful income and savings. Which is not exactly a sustainable situation. But of course, if you have any constructive suggestions as to how to make it more sustainable, I'm sure we all here will be really interested to hear them. Otherwise, your grandstanding is just a pile of stinking shit.
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  382. What trucks? Food imports were pretty much completely banned by Putin immediately after the Western "sanctions" were imposed in 2014. And now shelves in Russian supermarkets are stocked much better than at our local Trader Joe's. And trying to scare Russians with toilet paper shortages? It's like they say in Russia: you don't scare a hedgehog with your bare ass.
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  383.  @quasarsavage  For that, you'll have to move to Chelyabinsk, not Moscow. And remote work will only be possible until Biden cuts internet links to Russia.
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  384. @Jake Johansson Oh really? Tell me more about the sanctions and cyberops 😊
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  385. @Jake Johansson Yes, I know how Internet works, for the last 30 years or so. From BGP ASN filtering to DPI to government-imposed restrictions and sanctions on ISPs. Why?
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  386. @Jake Johansson Dude. Reality check: I do, and he can.
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  387. @Jake Johansson Ah, young man… You've got sooo much knowledge to discover in your life. It's a fascinating thing to do, enjoy the process. Good luck with it.
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  388. Damn, why did nobody think about that before you…
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  389.  @cebaker5671  You have no idea.
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  390. YouTube does it automatically, talk to them. Or just stay at Twitter.
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  391. As per Joy Reid, you cannot use "Karen".
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  392.  @ilarious5729  From you? Gawd, you're delusional… Otherwise, you'd see that Finland is not a good example of a sparsely populated country.
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  393.  @pequodott  Ohnoez, they're copying the Russians 😮
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  394. It looks like you've never dealt with the Russian portal service.
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  395. Putin has already clamped down on people's accounts at Russian banks — you cannot transfer much from Russian banks. If anything at all. Serbia or no Serbia. Russia being mostly out of SWIFT doesn't help either — only Putin's petrodollars go through unimpeded.
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  396. You do get road rage, but EU plates have nothing to do with that.
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  397. Sounds like my experience with Swiss.
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  398. Welcome to the future, time traveler.
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  399. Not sure if they serve mulled wine there though.
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  400. No. Roman's Russian.
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  401. Three reasons: 1. Atlanta sucks. 2. It's even harder to get a US visa for a Russian than a EU one. 3. Atlanta sucks.
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  402. @Dave Hardy There's no war in Crimea (it comes without "the"). And some foreigner shouting something unintelligible is not a reason for a drunk gopnik to get triggered. Who the hell is Слава Украина, anyway?
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  403. @Dave Hardy Ah. I see were you're confused. "Glory to Ukraine" is "слава Украине" (or "слава Україні" in the Ukrainian rendition). You need to use a correct declension to make yourself understood, particularly to a drunk person with a low IQ.
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  404. @Dave Hardy And I don't believe drunk gopniks care much about diplomatic technicalities.
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  405. @Dave Hardy You're confused again — Sevastopol has never been "lost to Ukraine" — even from 1991 to 2014 it enjoyed its "special status" and for all practical purposes was administered by the Russian military. Not to mention your misconception about drunk Chelyabinsk gopniks.
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  406. @Dave Hardy Again, no gopnik would care about that.
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  407. @Dave Hardy I think Roman is once bitten, twice shy.
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  408. @Dave Hardy From mild amusement to bitter disdain towards the Kiev government and ultra-nationalistic types, pity to indifference towards Ukrainians in general. Ukrainian live-in nurses and caregivers are popular in Moscow (maybe elsewhere, too). Some idealistic White Ribbon types tried to avail themselves to the Ukrainian nationalistic cause — only to be punished by the SBU.
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  409. Yes.
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  410. "Last Christmas" being the most English of them all.
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  411. You're forgetting the ugliest, most despicable, and dangerous thing in Amsterdam — bicycles and bicyclists. Russian cities were mostly immune to this plague, but with the proliferation of food delivery services and their bicycle couriers, streets in Russia are becoming almost as dangerous as those in Amsterdam…
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  412.  @rolandboerhof9391  Pervert. I prefer not to be hit at all.
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  413.  @rolandboerhof9391  I recommend to spend less time feeding YouTube algorithms and more time in the Russian streets. The streets of Amsterdam, OTOH… Don't even think about accidentally stepping off the pavement. Not even with one foot. Not at all. Just don't. And those police dogs?! Man…
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  414. Russia says no.
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  415. It all was mostly imported via Vladivostok back in the 90s/early naughts — before the Koreans and others flooded the market with "proper" cars.
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  416. Then the sanctions are missing their point by a long fucking mile.
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  417.  @James--Parker  He'll just shut the borders down (his gas and oil clients happily help him with that already). Easy. The border guards and their FSB minders have already started harassing people leaving the country at passport controls.
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  418.  @James--Parker  I'll write it one more time, slowly: What brain drain? Putin has already started shutting down borders.
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  419.  @James--Parker  I'd say, it is safe to assume that less than 100,000 highly educated and skilled persons have left Russia since the beginning of the war — out of the population of 140+ million. Russia/the Soviet Union have seen worse. Out of a million ways to leave Russia, name the one you've used. Or just name one.
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  420.  @James--Parker  So you have no idea that there was a country called "USSR" and what its emigration policies and border practices were. Nor have you heard about GDR. Alright, thanks for playing, anyway.
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  421.  @James--Parker  Oh, I understand you had lived in the USSR for a significant period of time to know and experience those movement control measures. Pray tell us about your experiences.
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  422.  @James--Parker  So you have no idea what you're talking about. Thanks for playing more, anyway.
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  423.  @arnoldsmith6294  A big one. And that's all Putin's generals care about.
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  424.  @yes3858  OMG, you can Google?!
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  425. Well, yeah, when was the last time you skated the canals of Amsterdam?
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  426.  @jeroen2218  Oh. Ok. So all that talk about "global warming" is a bunch of bull. Got it.
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  427.  @jeroen2218  No, seriously. I've heard many times that people skate on the canals only in the paintings of the Old Masters, but not anymore — because gLoBaL wArMiNg.
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  428.  @mrling3002  Yeah, ceding Viipuri and parts of Karelia, and being Soviet "neutral" stooges for half a century worked beautifully. Still works.
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  429. Wow. Who woulda thunk Roman'd hired a content advisor 😮
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  430. The default accent they still try to teach in English classes in Russia is sort of RP-ish, so it makes sense.
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  431. Same as everywhere — another spike in infections/hospitalizations/deaths.
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  432. Who gives a fuck about your fucks when so many civilians get murdered.
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  433. I liked the satellite that fell off a truck.
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  434. No, it's still Georgia in English. But you are welcome to call it საქართველო if it makes you happy.
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  435. What's the attitude towards sharing their medical records everywhere in Germany? Things like, you know, vaccination history and stuff?
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  436. Yeah, they're bastards like that. I'm pretty sure that Bald and Alinchik would've found a way to sneak in tho.
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  437. OMG no.... Roman misspoke?! It had never happened in the entire life of the Universe, but never!
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  438. There was this TV series in the US three-four years ago, "24: Legacy". In one of the episodes, some Chechen terrorists were planning to blow up a bridge in New York City, and the notes in their plans were... in Czech.
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  439. Oook, mystery solved. The song is not about the metro station, but about the avenue ("prospekt") it's named after. The avenue starts at the Moskva river at the Metro Bridge and its "Vorobyovy Gory" station (not on the Big Ring), next to the Moscow State University campus ("MGU"), hence the boulevards leading down to the river and the star shining atop the MGU Main Building in the lyrics. The Metro station "Prospekt Vernadskogo" OTOH is about 3 miles (4.5 km) up the avenue, past the "Universitet" station.
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  440.  @Morrov  It's, in fact, a sad joke about the Eiffel Tower by Guy de Maupassant 😁
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  441. Que?
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  442. 43 hours 45 minutes
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  443. My suggestion is: learn the language. With your linguistic chops, you can certainly do it. Even if it turns out you don't stay there long, just learn it — it's the ultimate way to appreciate the people and culture.
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  444. Why do you ask him? Ask the ones who told you that in the first place.
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  445. Seriously? Just look up "Georgian cuisine".
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  446. Hmmm… I personally know an African Jewish lady who's very pro-Israeli and pro-Putin (quote: "He's a friend of my people, he's a mensch!") . So… yeah. А так-то ты, Рома, конечно, попал…
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  447. No.
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  448.  @Artemy629  It's a 1969 comedy.
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  449. What do you think — are there hookers in the states where prostitution is illegal?
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  450.  @TheRifild  You're just one logical step away from answering your own question.
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  451.  @TheRifild  Ah. My bad.
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  452. They're being assholes in expensive cars. And it's Dubai, not Ukrainian borders.
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  453. By the time the English adopted their flag sometime during the Crusades, the Georgian "five crosses" design had been in use for some time already.
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  454. Internet!
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  455. Most of it. The Allies didn't bomb it.
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  456.  @iihamed711  There were hardly any Jews in Poland until the very Late Middle Ages. And then while the Polish Crown found them instrumental in dealing with the populace in the eastern provinces, said populace were not happy at all about their new Crown-imposed neighbors. And then the Crown was gone, but the populace stayed.
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  457. Did you even watch the video?
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  458.  @simonacinghita7719  Anybody who cannot stand, as the Irish put it, being taken the piss out of should not be admitted anywhere.
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  459. Yeah, children are starving in Africa. We've heard it all back in USSR. Well, I suppose, you're Polish, panie Kopciński. So, methinks, it's pretty arrogant of yourself — with your EU passport and barbed wire along the eastern borders — to dress down a person who got stuck outside the world he feels he belongs to. Yes, I know, you have your own problems — abortion is not easy for you, you get bombed by anti-aircraft missiles from time to time, but look — children are starving in Africa.
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  460. Have you ever been to Portugal?
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  461. Thanks to the sanctions, his money is frozen in Russia and still works for Putin. სანქციების წყალობით, მისი ფული რუსეთში გაყინულია და დღემდე მუშაობს პუტინისთვის.
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  462.  @Jimmerca  How did you get those 80%?
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  463. You might be looking for "таракан" (tarakán), plural "тараканы" (tarakány).
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  464.  @rowaystarco  Ukrainian artists performing in Russia are considered traitors of the Fatherland back home.
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  465.  @rowaystarco  It depends on who you ask.
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  466.  @rowaystarco  The Crimeans don't seem to give that much shit about UN resolutions, so like I said — depends on who you ask.
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  467.  @rowaystarco  Can you imagine?! Those Crimeans dare to side with Venezuela about their own fate! Those such-and-suchs…
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  468.  @rowaystarco  Let me try and type it really slow for you: I'm talking about C r i m e a n s You know, those 2M+ people who live on the peninsula and have their own opinion about what their life was, is, and should be. And who, according to services like Gallup and GfK, overwhelmingly support their being a part of the Russian Federation. Anecdotal evidence from Crimean vloggers and visitors to the territory, and, of course, the referendum you don't seem to be impressed with seem to support the pollers' data, too.
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  469.  @rowaystarco  Yes, I'm aware of the point of view that unless there are piles of bodies and NATO bombing the hell out of civilian targets, no people has the right of self-determination, and they are just serfs in those regions.
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  470.  @rowaystarco  No, I don't mean that. Try again.
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  471. His options in the USA are: 1. Asylum visa (ain't gonna happen) 2. Green card through marriage (takes months if not years) 3. Work visa (highly unlikely with his skill set, but even if your immigration lawyer figures something out, it still takes months and moneys on your part) 4. Getting a tourist visa and going "undocumented" once in the country (ain't gonna happen either — he won't be granted a tourist visa in the first place) 5. Going to Mexico as a tourist (still sort of possible), hiring a coyote, crossing the border "undocumented". Which option do you think you can help him with?
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  472.  @CelineNoyce  There are much more Russophone Americans with bona fide US law degrees and bar membership than you seem to think. So much more that lots of them just long to do something more fun and well paying than the dreaded document review gigs they're stuck with. There's no shortage here, believe you me.
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  473. Hi 19°F, lo 14°F
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  474. If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
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  475. Whatchu talking about? Russia says it ain't gonna invade no Ukraine.
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  476. Or they got stuck with their bank cards being useless pieces of plastic now.
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  477.  @jeb419  Yeah. Prepaid packaged tours, most probably.
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  478. См. внимательно, где у Романа прописка.
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  479. Are you saying a Russian-specific accent is not acceptable?
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  480. Well, he is, so…
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  481.  @jpsarot  Yeah, but he's from Chelyabinsk.
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  482. 1. Russians are not his audience. 2. Russians can still use the Internet, and they have tons of info and propaganda from all over the world.
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  483. Yes. The hilarity was gone when he died…
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  484. @Snorbo i wonder what you think he can say — other than what you can hear yourself on TV?
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  485. @Snorbo What stops you from donating? Do you really need a nudge from a youtuber to donate to those suffering in Ukraine?
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  486. @Snorbo I don't need any urging from anybody to do the right thing, let alone you. And while "other youtubers" are sitting wherever they sit with their reliable internet connections, functioning bank accounts, and money from youtube to pay the bills, Roman has none of it now, and God only knows when or if he'll have any of that again. You yourself have now way more capability to raise money than Roman. So you might as well go ahead and do that if you're so inclined.
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  487. @Snorbo So you didn't even bother to watch his video? Gawd, what a clown…
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  488.  @maggies88  Boney M, CC Catch, Bad Boys Blue, etc are still in massive circulation in Russia. Pugachova, Kirkorov, any old Soviet Schlager shit is still big. BIG. It all is really fucked up. So Prodigy is not too bad, frankly.
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  489.  @ThornsOfOurTime  Just checked: $155.89 for a sleeper place on tomorrow's train from Chelyabinsk to SPb.
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  490.  @ThornsOfOurTime  I can tell you what I can see on the railway's web site. I cannot tell what the girl meant, or what her sources were.
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  491.  @Natta37964  It won't. It's a bot.
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  492.  @FriedrichBarb  So lemme guess — you live in your mom's basement and help her with chores? Very thoughtful of you indeed.
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  493.  @FriedrichBarb  now I'm confused about what you're saying: is sticking around at your patients' house the right thing to do, or is it insulting? Please clarify.
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  494. Minus homeless, smash-and-grab raids, Democrats, and other shit in the streets. And yeah, the weather is better than in Sanfran.
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  495.  @XxAzureNekoxX  It didn't happen when Delta cancelled our flight, we had to arrange for own accommodations. Delta eventually reimbursed our overnight hotel expense, but we still lost a day of our hotel stay and a day of ski lift tickets at our European destination — and nobody reimbursed us for that.
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  496. Apparently, Roman respects his audience and doesn't think he needs to state the obvious to them.
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  497. Fun fact: the characters in the ballet all had German names until the 1914 germanophobia — and the girl became "Masha". And St.Petersburg became "Petrograd".
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  498.  @Bearodon  Meh... Chomping Finland and the Baltic provinces off Sweden was good enough for Russia.
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  499.  @Bearodon  Nah, that worked beautifully. And then the area was under Russia for 200 years and then some under the newer management. Not a bad stretch, not at all.
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  500. Why not? The market obviously has all kinds of, ehm, stuff from all over the world.
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  501.  @patrykn.5971  The right moment for him to talk about things he's never experienced? Is it what you're saying?
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  502. Nah, it's just you listening too slow.
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  503.  @gabriellegg8908  What can Roman say that will piss Putin off so much? Reveal that the people of Russia would love to have NATO ships patrolling Russian coastal waters, nuclear capable missiles stationed in like 15 minute flight from Moscow, and 50000 US troops stationed right across the Russian border? 😮
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  504.  @gabriellegg8908  Boring. We've heard it all. I asked for a video about what Russians think, not what the US and NATO's narrative is.
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  505.  @gabriellegg8908  Of course, nobody in their right mind wants war. And an average Russian person is really dumbfounded why NATO and US have been doing reckless provocations in the Black and Baltic seas and supplying Ukraine with weapons for months — and now are in a full-on hysterical war-mongering mode. I still don't see what harm there is for Roman in voicing this "average Russian" opinion.
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  506.  @gabriellegg8908  I don't care about you telling me what NATO's perspective is on this channel — my country maintains the lion share of NATO's budget, let alone its own "defense" budget (and guess where it gets all that money from), so I'm very much aware what that perspective is (including their insistence on telling Russia what it can and cannot do with Russian troops on Russian soil — while responding with "fuck you" to Russia's concerns about NATO activity at Russia's borders). All I'm asking is — why are you suggesting that it can be dangerous for Roman to voice an average Russian's opinion here? And no, those "sanctions" didn't have much effect on the Russian economy. The massive government-controlled oil- and gas-fueled oligarchic trickle-down capitalism turned out to be pretty resilient and flexible, and if anything, the sanctions provided a useful reality check and helped to diversify and advance the local economy — from microbreweries and cheese production to hospitality services (yes, in Crimea, too), to banking, aerospace, and nearly all other technologies. Just saying…
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  507.  @gabriellegg8908  You could've guessed Roman is not my only or primary or anywhere significant source of information on Russia — and you've failed miserably. Well, ok…
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  508.  @gabriellegg8908  Do you know anything about NATO at all? Can you do simple deductive logic? Put two and two together, as we say here? I've provided enough information already.
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  509.  @gabriellegg8908  I could do many things indeed.
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  510. The Socialist Republic of Virginia has just become less socialist, so no QR bullshit here.
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  511. Russia says it doesn't. It's your word against Russia's.
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  512. Ипаццо тут задротов набежало…
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  513. Europe has enough problems with refugees already — Ukrainian and otherwise. Russians are at the very end of the line, be it EU, Britain, Georgia or anywhere else.
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  514. Fake news like what? Can we have a look?
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  515. You must be new here — he already has.
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  516. Assume all.
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  517. Dude… When executed properly, it's heaven on earth.
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  518. No.
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  519. Yes, we do.
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  520. Que?
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  521.  @DesdemonaDeCay  Who stole what from whom?
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  522.  @DesdemonaDeCay  What are you talking about? The ballet was choreographed at a theater in St. Petersburg by its two leading resident choreographers. And as far as I know, E.T.A.Hoffmann's estate never claimed that his copyright was infringed upon by the ballet. But nobody can prevent you from being an idiot and claim that the Russians stole the Olivier salad from France, too.
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  523.  @DesdemonaDeCay  Well, this joke has long since grew old, I cannot do much about that either.
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  524.  @DesdemonaDeCay  So very kind of you, but I'm so allergic to the critters even cat videos make my eyes itch. So no.
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  525.  @DesdemonaDeCay  Myeah. Without cats, all's left is "Russians stole this, Russians stole that". It sucks. [puts more Olivier in his bowl]
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  526. The Ukrainian president just said Russia isn't invading Ukraine anytime soon. And Russians have been saying that all along. So…
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  527. No. But Georgians are not known for their safe and polite driving culture anyway.
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  528. What has it got to do with tacos?
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  529. Come take it.
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  530.  @stevemcgowen  The city is even worse than the airport?! Wow…
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  531. Life hack — print it out and carry it in your wallet.
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  532. Yes.
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  533. Everything's possible to watch in Russia. Copyright is hardly ever enforced, nobody GAF about it, and people routinely use VPNs to bypass all kinds of limitations. Because Russia!
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  534. Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_Tractor_Plant
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  535. They used Photoshop a lot back then.
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  536. Amen, brother. (Potato pancakes sound more Belarusian or Ashkenazi, but it's close enough 😊)
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  537.  @Bamiyanbigasf  Before the Rus was united, there were no Rus. And after a short while, with the Rurikovichi's knack for offing each other to get the seniority in the famiglia, it wasn't really united until it sorta was in the 1500s. Just sayin.
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  538. Roman's too big to fit in the back.
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  539. They don't.
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  540. Yes.
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  541.  @WDOphotography  The problem with Tbilisi is that there are no direct flights there from anywhere in Russia — he'll have to do a layover/stopover in one of those countries anyway. Which is extremely stressful for a person in his (as I understand it) situation.
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  542. С какого перепугу девочка из Черновцов будет иметь "южнорусский говор"?
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  543.  @dima_kum  Не нужно.
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  544.  @dima_kum  Тут никто слова не сказал про украинский язык. Что всполошились-то?
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  545.  @dima_kum  Thank you for sharing.
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  546.  @dima_kum  Автор канала говорил о том, как украинцы говорят по-русски, а не по-украински — на примере айидише мейдл из Черновцов. Про украинский язык и диалектный континуум между украинским и русским языками он слова не сказал.
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  547. When the low-coster was first established in late 2013, they took the historical name «Dobrolet». But their mistake was they started to fly domestic flights to Crimea in 2014 — and were promptly sanctioned by the EU. The company folded and was immediately resurrected as «Pobeda» — they didn't even change the livery, just painted the new name over. Like Roman said, it's one of the most popular airlines in Russia now, but they still don't fly to Crimea. Fun fact: major Russian airlines (Aeroflot, S7, Ural) and a bunch of low-costers and regionals still fly in and out of Crimea as if nothing's happened.
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  548. But surely your giving these profound advices works like magic.
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  549. Bad idea.
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  550. Chelyabinsk is way farther inland than SPb, and its climate is much more continental.
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  551. He's still more black (Black? Blacker?) than Elizabeth Warren is Native American.
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  552. I thought she died of old age, no? Her mom though, she cannot, of course, die — she's undead.
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  553. Says First Name
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  554. And how do you know it was "thanks to"?
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  555.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  I'm not. What's there to comment?
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  556.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  He tells stuff that most Russians don't understand. Because English!
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  557.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  Ага. Щяз.
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  558.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  Да как бы нет. А многие из тех, кто думает, что умеет говорить по-английски, думают это зря.
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  559.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  Вылазьте почаще из своего окружения и англоязычных интернетов — много чего нового узнаете о родном народе. А так-то — ну в моём окружении так просто все русские говорят по-английски, даже дети малые. И чо?
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  560.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  Thank you for sharing 🤦‍♂️
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  561.  @ЕкатеринаСамодурова-о9з  Моё мнение о владении английским русскими складывается не только и не столько по моему окружению, но по моему опыту общения с людьми за пределами оного. Far and wide.
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  562. I wonder what were the prevailing winds in the area back then…
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  563. Thank you! [cannot hold it anymore and bursts in Russian tears]
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  564. Ukraine considers Russian males of conscriptable age very sus. They may or may not let Roman in.
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  565. Don't they use icebreakers to keep it navigable?
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  566.  @DashieDe  The Neva is more than 500 meters wide there and very navigable.
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  567. Georgian wine has always been readily available in Russia. At least the commercial kind.
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  568. Ikr? Венечка вообще огонь.
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  569. Are you a Georgian immigration lawyer? What's your rate?
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  570.  @imeretian9446  I'm flattered by your interest in my humble persona.
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  571. Wow. Was it Battleship Potjomkin?
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  572.  @niceguy1891  How do they convey their threats, I wonder? In plain Swedish?
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  573. I'm purely speculating here, but maybe they've got a Tor option in their package?
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  574. Ever heard of Tiananmen? Or closer to this day — the Bolotnaya Square and White Ribbon protests? Or closer yet — anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus? An authoritarian and deeply entrenched state doesn't care about numbers — it just throws millions of people into the meat grinder to keep and expand its power. There's no safety in numbers, you just get millions of dead bodies. Russia has been there. China has been there. Both are traumatized as fuck, neither is to recover anytime soon.
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  575. Do you look or act sus?
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  576. He's dodged the draft already.
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  577. Nope.
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  578.  @inspector_beyond  Негр-раб Ибрагим (неустановленного происхождения то ли из Эфиопии, то ли из Камеруна) не очень ясным образом оказался во владении Петра I. Царь паприколу его крестил, дал библейское имя Абрам, отчество Петрович и фамилию Ганнибал, произвёл из рабов в аристократы и дал приличное образование. А.С. Пушкин был правнуком Абрама Петровича.
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  579.  @burnedoutgraduatestudent4482  Once? You must be kidding…
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  580. Russian tourists visiting the EU will certainly have a lot of sympathy for you.
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  581. Half of the US are socialists now. Welcome home.
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  582.  @IcefightFX  Ehm... In the US, you can get your card transaction information pretty much immediately in your bank app. Or via text messages (you guys call it "SMS"). AFAIK, it works the same way in Russia and Georgia.
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  583.  @IcefightFX  Haha indeed. But I'm an American, and I hardly ever use anything but my credit cards or the same credit cards via Google Pay.
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  584.  @magpie1862  Unfortunately for merchants, accepting bank cards (debit or credit) is not free.
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  585. Any old oligarch is still faring way better than all the Russians who have fled to Georgia combined.
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  586. Do they still talk about Rudolf Abel in New York?
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  587.  @usa-1129  I've just asked couple-three New Yorkers — nobody even knows what I'm talking about. None of them are youtubers, maybe that's the problem.
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  588. Good eye
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  589.  @Jasonforchrist90  It's 63°F on this here east coast at the moment.
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  590.  @thelastofthehitachi972  And churchkhela. He's already made a dozen runs via the Lars checkpoint with loads of churchkhela up his butt. Now try to forget this imagery every time you're at a Georgian market.
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  591. Good luck with that.
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  592.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Last time I checked (last November), you could get a Sputnik V booster shot. I'm pretty sure you still can. Just saying…
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  593. Haha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlaam
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  594. Right after never.
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  595. Your mental abilities are really sad.
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  596.  @barbaraocwieja5021  Perhaps they know from, say, their experience in Spain that trying to use English helps only this much? But yeah, I still find your idea "when in Poland, speak English!" kinda interesting.
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  597.  @barbaraocwieja5021  No?! Who woulda thunk… Czy w Polsce mówi się jeszcze po polsku? Or have you guys already accepted that Polish is not really of any use?
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  598.  @barbaraocwieja5021  More tourists come to Poland from Germany than from all other countries combined. And yet you insist on English. I dunno, it's like, rude…
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  599.  @barbaraocwieja5021  I suggest no such thing. Thank you for asking.
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  600.  @yvonnehorde1097  You who?
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  601.  @yvonnehorde1097  So Germans don't learn Polish and yet travel to Poland in droves. I dunno, it's like, rude…
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  602.  @yvonnehorde1097  Why would you? You don't bother to speak Polish, do you?
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  603.  @yvonnehorde1097  Well, some Poles here seem to express an opinion that it's rude when people try to talk to them in languages they don't understand.
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  604.  @yvonnehorde1097  Excellence in speech isn't too common among native speakers either.
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  605. His English accent? Yes, he's too good. His Russian one? Not so much. There are hordes of provincials in the capitals, nobody gives a fuck.
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  606.  @nemosius  If the only people you communicate with in Moscow are taxi drivers and "Piatiorochka" check-out clerks... Or you fellow deliverymen... Well.. That might explain your idiocy.
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  607. Amen.
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  608. If Moscow passes as Russia, dishwashers are a pretty common thing there nowadays.
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