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Sometimes is difficult to tell is they are trolling or if they really believe in half of what they are saying.
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In my case it is usually both.  The two are not mutually exclusive.  The opposite in fact.  A good troll almost always contains undeniable truths, or at least interesting ways of looking at things.  That's what makes it effective.

Believe it or not, the main reason I spend any time on this thread is because I would like the whole thing to end out of concern for what are probably a significant majority of Ukrainians who are good people caught up in a bad situation which they are not responsible for.  Every day I am more and more of the opinion that one of the main driving forces behind the conflict is that the current political leadership of Ukraine, and the people above them, is the straight-up genociding of the Ukrainian Slavs generally.  The Ukrainian Nazi-ish creeps too who I don't care much about.  Death by cop Russian.

I also feel that the people of some of the areas of former Ukraine (Donbas for instance) will be better off under the muscular protection of Russia than they were under the current (and probably past) leaderships of Ukraine who were relatively open about the need to exterminate them.  Or at least some of the more loose-lipped of the Ukrainian nationalists were.  Once you put a plan like that into action it is effectively a lose of any moral/ethical claim to an area as far as I'm concerned.  Who here is at all surprised by Ukrainian generals stating bluntly that Donesk _must_ be razed and by seeing banned anti-personnel mines being fired into long lost civilian areas?  I wasn't.  That's how degraded the Ukrainians have allowed themselves to become.  I would put almost nothing past them at this point.  Something has gone seriously wrong with their brains.  Would be worth figuring out what it is someday, but what ever the case, for the here and now, it is what it is.

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Did you miss the part where the Russia tried to take Kiev and remove the government and ended up having to retreat?

As for Kyiv, I commented in this post above.

I assume you mean this?

I was talking about the first month. Which also included a hasty retreat from Kyiv.

Show me at least one quote from the Russian President, his ministers or the Russian General Staff that Russian troops were going to capture Kyiv. This news was trumpeted by the Western media, and then they themselves denied it, presenting it as an "unsuccessful plan of the Kremlin."
It's the same as publishing a fake everywhere that American astronauts are going to land on Mars next month, and then a month later also say that American astronauts failed to achieve their goals.
Russian troops launched a military group of about 15,000 people near Kyiv to contain the Kyiv troops so that they would not go for reinforcements to the eastern part. Russian troops were stationed there until, as a result of negotiations in Istanbul on March 29, 2022, a decision was made to remove the Russian group from that direction. It was after the negotiations that the Russian troops gone from the Kyiv region, which was then declared as "a great victory" for the Ukrainian military. By the way, how are the Ukrainian bayraktars doing there, about whom you were so worried? Something little news about them lately.


If you really think it makes sense to ignore anything written by the west (free press) and only believe reports that are pro Russia or coming from Russian media (which is largely controlled by Putin), then obviously nothing will change your mind.  But if not, and you've realized how ridiculous your points have been in the past like this one ... have a read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022) and then let me know if you really think the first month of the war went mostly according to plan for Putin.

Sometimes is difficult to tell is they are trolling or if they really believe in half of what they are saying.

 This was is no different from many others that have been led by the Russian supremacists. Confronting one ethnicity with others, using propaganda massively while ignoring any limit to what is human and what is "reasonable" in war.
Smoke-screening with stupid arguments about "west" versus "east" (as if killing was a culture), accusing others of nazism while behaving as such, denying everything (Even denying there is war!!) ...

Up to the point of complaining that the RF artists are no longer invited to play abroad while they kill the old and the young alike. I wonder how many people in the RF really believe the crap or they are just trying hard to believe it so that they do not feel part of the scum of the Earth.
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Cool history lesson back from 1627 starting with the Tsars, now, and you feel all of this somehow justifies current discrimination?  

It is a completely normal reaction of the people, whom inadequate education on the border, for several centuries, tried to destroy, both physically and morally - destroying the language, history, culture. Ukraine has the right to restore justice, put in place a bastard education, and restore its statehood in the form that Ukraine itself deems necessary. And the opinion of world terrorists, murderers, thieves, rapists is not interesting to us! From the word completely and in general! Smiley
Reading you, I now absolutely clearly understand why Russia was friends with Nazi Germany, and started the Second World War. Why then, in a matter of months, she surrendered a huge territory. Why did the Russians massively go over to the side of Nazism. Why did the population of Russia so happily met the Nazis and served them. And why, after 1945, the Kremlin began to massively write fairy tales about traitors Ukrainians, Belarusians, Chechens, and others, cowardly shielding their MASS traitors! You, and your thinking, are a great example for me to prove it Smiley

By the way, you still haven't answered the question: "where in Moscow you can get an education not in Russian, but in Ukrainian and others." And you yourself know very well why you can study in Russian in Ukraine in Kyiv (although you deliberately lied that it was impossible, that the Russian language is FORBIDDEN), but in Moscow it’s impossible, and in Moscow, as well as in Russia, there is a ban on learning in Ukrainian, a ban on libraries, a ban on broadcasting Ukrainian channels,... You know, you know! Smiley
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Did you miss the part where the Russia tried to take Kiev and remove the government and ended up having to retreat?

As for Kyiv, I commented in this post above.

I assume you mean this?

I was talking about the first month. Which also included a hasty retreat from Kyiv.

Show me at least one quote from the Russian President, his ministers or the Russian General Staff that Russian troops were going to capture Kyiv. This news was trumpeted by the Western media, and then they themselves denied it, presenting it as an "unsuccessful plan of the Kremlin."
It's the same as publishing a fake everywhere that American astronauts are going to land on Mars next month, and then a month later also say that American astronauts failed to achieve their goals.
Russian troops launched a military group of about 15,000 people near Kyiv to contain the Kyiv troops so that they would not go for reinforcements to the eastern part. Russian troops were stationed there until, as a result of negotiations in Istanbul on March 29, 2022, a decision was made to remove the Russian group from that direction. It was after the negotiations that the Russian troops gone from the Kyiv region, which was then declared as "a great victory" for the Ukrainian military. By the way, how are the Ukrainian bayraktars doing there, about whom you were so worried? Something little news about them lately.


If you really think it makes sense to ignore anything written by the west (free press) and only believe reports that are pro Russia or coming from Russian media (which is largely controlled by Putin), then obviously nothing will change your mind.  But if not, and you've realized how ridiculous your points have been in the past like this one ... have a read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022) and then let me know if you really think the first month of the war went mostly according to plan for Putin.
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Ahh forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language under disguise of "decolonization" while claiming that it's not a "natural language to ukrainians" or they have to leave the country is not an indirect method aimed at forced migration at all.  Roll Eyes. True EU values. Tell us you support ethnic cleansing without saying you support ethnic cleansing



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Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area...it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing


How not ashamed to lie so STUPIDLY!? Smiley

In Ukraine, there is no ban on the Russian language, in Ukraine, after 2014 years, a sharp drop in interest in a language that turned out not to be a carrier of culture and history, but a means of terror, a pretext for murder, looting, and violence. The population rejects it en masse. Although the state and even private educational institutions continue to provide such a service. In Kyiv, for example, there are about 20 schools where you can study COMPLETELY in Russian.

Now show me how many schools in Moscow where you can fully study at:
- Ukrainian
- Tatar
- Chechen
- Moldovan
- Tajik
Or is this again a "completely different story", as you usually say when they poke your nose into what you are doing, attributing it to others? Smiley
So there is no need to hysteria and primitive, stupid lies to scatter here. This is not Russia for you - here people think and know the truth Smiley
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de-Russification of Ukraine

I also have a question for people here: Why this is bad? I mean in reality de-russification == de-colonization , so why this is bad? Im' living in Ukraine, and never seen that people were forbidden to speak russian. But yeah, new generations should learn their own language, not some imperialistic and colonial "языГ". So this is like: you are allowed to speak russian, but your children will be ukrainian speaker, if you don't want so you could leave to russia.

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Wow, yeah, that's not racist at all. So nice of you to only discriminate against further generations, and allowing current generation to continue to speak Russian (where majority in capital Kyiv use Russian in their everyday life) i thought there was a higher chance of Ukraine keeping it together, but after your comment, (if you in fact represent majority view) i can see how that will be impossible now.

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...Unesco, the Council of Europe and the OSCE, are concerned with the risk that RMLs [Regional and Minority Languages] face and undertake actions to protect their linguistic rights. Non-respect for regional or minority communities' linguistic rights is qualified as racial discrimination, a breach of human rights.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2016)589794
Ofc not. This is called "decolonization". The same things happens in Africa or in New Zeland with maori. Russian is not the natural language to ukrainians, this is colonial language which was forced to learn by force. So it's normal that country want to leave colonial past behind. If someone want, he can learn russian by himself or in private schools.

And yeah, russian this is not "regional language". Regional language is the language of minority nations which doesn't have their own countries. In Ukraine this is crimean tatar or gagauzi (minority nation near Moldova). And yeah, we need to help them to safe their culture.

Ahh forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language under disguise of "decolonization" while claiming that it's not a "natural language to ukrainians" or they have to leave the country is not an indirect method aimed at forced migration at all.  Roll Eyes. True EU values. Tell us you support ethnic cleansing without saying you support ethnic cleansing



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Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area...it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Sure, let's do that with London as well:



According to your theory, India should be in charge quite a few boroughs of London and Indi made an official language, the rest belong to the Middle East states and many to Ethiopia, so Ethiopian, Urdu, Farsi, Romanian, Polish,... all official.

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Show me at least one quote from the Russian President, his ministers or the Russian General Staff that Russian troops were going to capture Kyiv. This news was trumpeted by the Western media, and then they themselves denied it, presenting it as an "unsuccessful plan of the Kremlin."
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Oh... so the Ukrainians are right when they call the Orcs "tourists". Putin is still calling this a "special operation", yet he is at war. Nothing of what he says can be trusted (any enemy communication is by definition disinformation). However you can rely on facts:
- 2014, Putin says "I could take Kyiv in 2 weeks if I wanted".
- 2022 - Official declarations "de-nazify" & "de-militarise" (you tell me how that is done without taking Kyiv.
- March 2022 - a Four pointed offensive towards Kyiv.
- March 2022 - Intense fighting in localities around Kyiv.

Sounds more like: "I can't have it, so I do want it".


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More and more, the people of Ukraine are asking Russia to deliver their country from the Ukrainian government. Looks like Ukrainians are coming to understand that the US-installed Ukrainian government is using them (the people) for its own profit, and not for theirs.


Massive escalation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine being planned as Donetsk People’s Republic leader seeks “liberation” of “all Russian cities” in Ukraine



It appears as though Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is about to become a much longer, multi-year operation.

The leader of the newly ‘liberated’ Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has called for the liberation of “all Russian cities” in Ukraine, which includes Odessa, something that he considers one of the most important strategic objectives of Moscow’s ‘special military operation.’

“All Russian cities must be liberated,” he said in response to questions from an RIA News correspondent, according to Russian news site TopWar.ru.

“It is time to liberate the Russian cities founded by the Russian people again, such as Kyiv Chernigov, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Lutsk,” he added, according to The Limited Times.

Pushilin went on to say that allied troops consisting of Russian forces along with the People’s Militia of the DPR and LPR should move beyond the borders of those two enclaves after they have been completely taken over, meaning, he is pushing President Vladimir Putin to take over the entire country of Ukraine. He believes that if Putin halts the invasion at the borders of the two annexed ‘republics’ then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will take that as a victory of sorts and use it to restore the Ukrainian army’s combat capabilities.

In addition, Pushilin reasoned that any delay in taking all of Ukraine by Russia will also give Ukraine’s Western allies time to help rearm Kyiv’s fighting forces as well. That will no doubt include long-range artillery, rockets and other weapons that will be used to constantly shell the annexed republics.

“If the enemy receives serious weapons with a long range, then, of course, we will then have to make appropriate decisions,” he said.

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legendary
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Guess technically Jews could always stop the concentration camps if they had majority in Nazi Germany... Cause you know discrimination and racism is always decided via majority vote

Only if the country is actually democratic and asks people about their opinions.

Are you trying to say Hitler asked the Germans if he should gas Jews in camps or not and acted only after he got the majority of votes?
Putin surely asked the population if he should attack Ukraine and the majority said yes, which is why soldiers were told they'd go to Belarus for training, took a nap in transport trucks and woke up in Ukraine.

That's a nice theory you got there.
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Alright there's no official language in US on federal level but most states have English as official language at the state levels, but English is definitely a national and regional language in US of A, so my point still stands.

Banning books of minorities decided by the majority, of course majority can always decide to stop discriminating if they wish to vote so, tyranny of the majority at it's finest. Guess technically Jews could always stop the concentration camps if they had majority in Nazi Germany... Cause you know discrimination and racism is always decided via majority vote

The same famous russian culture you say huh?

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Piotrovsky (the director of the vast State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg) goes on to describe Russian culture as an important export, similar to the country's war in Ukraine. "Our recent exhibitions abroad are just a powerful cultural offensive. If you want, a kind of 'special operation', which a lot of people don't like. But we are coming. And no one can be allowed to interfere with our offensive."

Using comparisons to historic wars, the museum director then explains why Russians must support the current war in Ukraine. “Right now our country has made the transition to a different time,” Piotrovsky said. “The first period of the Scythian war has come to an end. We retreated and retreated, now we are no longer retreating. A turn has been made. And it’s already clear that is the final turn. It all began in 2014 in Crimea.”

Piotrovsky casts the transformation in epochal terms, with the museum as an island of stability. “Our country is carrying out great global transformations,” he said. “And we, accordingly, are part of them and with her. Our position is one of calm, normal work.”

Summing up, Id say fuck you and fuck your russian culture. This stuff should be banned in every single country that cares about its national security.
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Cool justification to ban books. Nothing says you're on the right side of the history like banning books. How many years in prison should ethnic Russian grandma get for smuggling 10 of these for her grand kids? And who listens to music on the radio, should blocking the Internet for all Russian content be next?


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You might wanna re-read johhnyUA post just above, i didn't believe it before but that's what i'm hearing now

Ah yes, 'Masha and Bear'.  One of the few kids shows which doesn't peddle pure degeneracy, idiocy, fagotry, etc.  A lot of the crap comes from Ukraine, but in fairness I have to give a nod to 'Dave and Ava' which is out of Ukraine and is pretty OK, and point out that the worst is from China although I suspect it is pumped out for Western consumers only.  UkuLele is another good show and it happens to be Russian well.  I gotta pay some attention to this stuff on account of being a parent and all.

When I was figuring out where should be my '2nd option' for expatriation reasons I didn't even consider Russia.  To a degree I'm sure that it was a result of a lifetime of tension between my country Russia and the consequent propaganda, but also I was working under the a conception of the society as a late Soviet and early post-Soviet conception of the society.  Honestly, the kids shows more than anything have given me the idea that there may be sprouts of a relatively promising future society in that nation.  I still consider it to be as 'deep state-ee' and politically corrupt as the U.S., and to have it's share of dangerous and unpleasant people, but as a trend things are looking positive from what I can see.  The whole West is on a steep negative trajectory.  I've been researching a '3rd option' off and on while we see the 'great reset' progress, and Russia is on my list now.

Edit:  In addition to the Jewtube kiddie show quality, the quality of the posters on this very thread certainly played a role in my recent warming toward Russia.  And, of course, the conduct of the Russians both diplomatically and militarily through the special military operation in Ukraine so far.  Of course this is compared to the Western complements so it isn't that high a bar for Russia to meet to look pretty sterling.

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Banning books

Repeating this doesn't make it true. I'm sure great literary works of Russian authors can still be translated and printed in Ukrainian, and perhaps even imported in the original language under one of the exceptions.

Exactly. But with a little clarification: Such statement was fair before the war. Now i think that around 90 % of russian books and authors will be canceled by ukrainian audience. But this is fair I think
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Banning books

Repeating this doesn't make it true. I'm sure great literary works of Russian authors can still be translated and printed in Ukrainian, and perhaps even imported in the original language under one of the exceptions.

Considering shit like this in children's books issued by the "liberators", the restrictions seem about right:

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Wrong about what? Which of those languages is an official language in the US?

look even US of A supports Russian speakers  
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Oфициaльный вeб-caйт пpaвитeльcтвa Coeдинeнныx Штaтoв
https://www.irs.gov/ru

Ukraine's president's website has a Russian version too:

https://www.president.gov.ua/ru

But by all means please let me know the new location of the goalposts.



Alright there's no official language in US on federal level but most states have English as official language at the state levels, but English is definitely a national and regional language in US of A, so my point still stands.

Banning books of minorities decided by the majority, of course majority can always decide to stop discriminating if they wish to vote so, tyranny of the majority at it's finest. Guess technically Jews could always stop the concentration camps if they had majority in Nazi Germany... Cause you know discrimination and racism is always decided via majority vote
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Wrong about what? Which of those languages is an official language in the US?

look even US of A supports Russian speakers  
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Oфициaльный вeб-caйт пpaвитeльcтвa Coeдинeнныx Штaтoв
https://www.irs.gov/ru

Ukraine's president's website has a Russian version too:

https://www.president.gov.ua/ru

But by all means please let me know the new location of the goalposts.

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Do you know any other country in the world where language spoken by the majority in the capital is not even a regional language?

US of A

Forced Ukrainization? Why not give people the option and let them decide for themselves?

People decided, via elections. They can decide differently in the next election, but...

Totally not a cultural war, nope not at all
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Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday voted through two laws which will place severe restrictions on Russian books and music as Kyiv seeks to break many remaining cultural ties between the two countries following Moscow’s invasion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-restrict-russian-books-music-latest-cultural-break-moscow-2022-06-19/

... to no one's surprise (except feigned one by kremlinistas here) Russian language is losing its appeal during the invasion so I'm guessing the next election won't be favorable to that effect.

Wrong again https://www.city-data.com/states/District-of-Columbia-Languages.html
but US of A does have Spanish radio stations and lots of government documents are available in Spanish, especially in southern states https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ look even US of A supports Russian speakers  
Ahh forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language under disguise of "decolonization" while claiming that it's not a "natural language to ukrainians" or they have to leave the country is not an indirect method aimed at forced migration at all.  Roll Eyes. True EU values. Tell us you support ethnic cleansing without saying you support ethnic cleansing

This law forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language does not exist.  

I'm not saying that such laws exists, just replying to johhnyUA who seems to be truly bewildered why discrimination and racism go against EU values and are bad

You're saying it because it's something you've heard many times before from people that support Russia's invasion.  

It's not true though.  It's a lie that exists to justify Russias actions and thus increase Russia support.

You might wanna re-read johhnyUA post just above, i didn't believe it before but that's what i'm hearing now
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Ahh forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language under disguise of "decolonization" while claiming that it's not a "natural language to ukrainians" or they have to leave the country is not an indirect method aimed at forced migration at all.  Roll Eyes. True EU values. Tell us you support ethnic cleansing without saying you support ethnic cleansing

This law forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language does not exist.   

I'm not saying that such laws exists, just replying to johhnyUA who seems to be truly bewildered why discrimination and racism go against EU values and are bad

You're saying it because it's something you've heard many times before from people that support Russia's invasion. 

It's not true though.  It's a lie that exists to justify Russias actions and thus increase Russia support.
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Do you know any other country in the world where language spoken by the majority in the capital is not even a regional language?

US of A

Forced Ukrainization? Why not give people the option and let them decide for themselves?

People decided, via elections. They can decide differently in the next election, but...

Totally not a cultural war, nope not at all
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Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday voted through two laws which will place severe restrictions on Russian books and music as Kyiv seeks to break many remaining cultural ties between the two countries following Moscow’s invasion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-restrict-russian-books-music-latest-cultural-break-moscow-2022-06-19/

... to no one's surprise (except feigned one by kremlinistas here) Russian language is losing its appeal during the invasion so I'm guessing the next election won't be favorable to that effect.
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Ahh forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language under disguise of "decolonization" while claiming that it's not a "natural language to ukrainians" or they have to leave the country is not an indirect method aimed at forced migration at all.  Roll Eyes. True EU values. Tell us you support ethnic cleansing without saying you support ethnic cleansing

This law forbidding law abiding ethnic Russian UA citizens from teaching their children their native language does not exist.   

I'm not saying that such laws exists, just replying to johhnyUA who seems to be truly bewildered why discrimination and racism go against EU values and are bad

You might not be aware, but people can speak more than one language. The requirement to learn the official language of the country you live in (for example to be able to use government services) does not prevent you from using whatever other language(s) you speak, and isn't racism or discrimination. Every country including Russia works like that.
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