Russia - Return To The Good 'ol Days?

[Furtherman]

<p>Two outspoken critics of Putin's governmet have been killed recently.</p><p>First, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5416218.stm" target="_blank">Russian journalist <font size="1">Anna Politkovskaya was shot to death in an elevator of her apartment building.</font></a></p><p>Now, the former spy who was poisoned last week while investigating her death, has died.</p><p>And oh how KGBish.</p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/24/uk.spypoisoned/index.html" target="_blank">Radiation found where ex-spy ate, UK officials say</a></p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/24/uk.spy.polonium.ap/index.html" target="_blank">Polonium-210 -- the radioactive substance used to poison a former Russian spy in London -- is one of the world's rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, any of you who want to criticize the Kremlin?&nbsp; Be careful, commrade.</p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p>I was a Soviet Studies major in college (1985-1989). All I have to say is, </p><p><font size="4">WELL, DUH!!!!</font>&nbsp;</p><p>They were never a real threat to us considering their backasswards technology. </p><p>But given Russian people as a whole, very vindictive, devious people. </p><p>I'm related to a lot of them. Awful, sneaky people. &nbsp;</p>

[Kevin]

Return?? When did they stop?

[HBox]

<p><img src="http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20040626/malkin_62493.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&quot;Awww fuck.&quot;</p>

[lleeder]

<p>Just in time for the &quot;New Bond&quot; to deal with</p><p><img src="http://www.zaman.com/2006/11/18/casino_royale_b.jpg" border="0" width="220" height="175" /></p>

[K.C.]

<p>It's long overdue...we've need a good heel in world politics.</p>

[Yerdaddy]

<p>There's a group of Russians on vacation here. Worst kind of people imaginable. They're these big corn-fed barrel-chested guys with crew cuts - military - with no concept of other people. Spent the whole night yelling and dancing in front of the movie screen one of the bars set up for people to watch Saudi satellite on. There's about 30 pissed off people who weren't going to say shit because you could tell these guys are the&nbsp; kind of guys who would run somebody over in their SUV just for fun. Which is why I'm sure they're Russian military - where they come from, they ARE the law. </p><p>Russia. There's your social Darwinism for you.</p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p><em><span class="postbody">Russia. There's your social Darwinism for you.</span></em></p><p>Considering their treatment of their people after the Chernobyl accident. &quot;Keep it a secret. Oh, there's radioactivity in Sweden? Georgia must have farted.&quot;</p><p>&quot;One of our subs sank, No, no, we don't need your help. LOOK! A&nbsp; BEAR!&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[MHasegawa]

i fuckin love these russians, they're such vengeful pricks.&nbsp; they're old school too, they dont bomb their enemies, they fuckin poison the cocksuckers.&nbsp;

[Bulldogcakes]

<p><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/11/24" title="Great book about Kruschev and the early cold war days. ">Great book about Kruschev and the early cold war days. </a></p><p>Interview with the author, about a half hour. &nbsp;</p>

[K.C.]

<strong>MHasegawa</strong> wrote:<br />i fuckin love these russians, they're such vengeful pricks.&nbsp; they're old school too, they dont bomb their enemies, they fuckin poison the cocksuckers.&nbsp; <p>It's not the first one as of late. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone remember this guy:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.exoduster.com/top.yushchenko.split.afp.ap.jpg" border="0" alt="http://www.exoduster.com/top.yushchenko.split.afp.ap.jpg" title="http://www.exoduster.com/top.yushchenko.split.afp.ap.jpg" width="280" height="210" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

I remember when we used to chase Russian subs off a gitmo...they would surface and man their deck guns...they surely had balls!!!!!!!!!!

[TheMojoPin]

<p>FINALLY.</p>

[mendyweiss]

<img src="http://www.fresh99.com/images/mariashaparova/maria_sharapova_more.jpg" border="0" width="407" height="572" />Can we at least keep her ?

[booster11373]

<p>I never bought that the Soviet Union just went away. Me and my freinds are ready though.</p><p>WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!</p>

[Don Stugots]

since i have the Russian wife and Russian in-laws, i can honestly say that nothing there has changed except that now the Mobsters wear nice suites and have law degrees.&nbsp;

[FUNKMAN]

holy&nbsp;shitski that's a rough place...

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>I can't believe this thread has gone this long without the obligatory Yakov Smirnoff reference.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[dotsncoms]

Next!

[A.J.]

<p>He has anticipated every countermove.</p><p><img src="http://www.chesscorner.com/worldchamps/spassky/russia-with-love.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="286" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by A.J. on 11-25-06 @ 1:15 PM</span>

[Yerdaddy]

<strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br /><p>He has anticipated every countermove.</p><p><img src="http://www.chesscorner.com/worldchamps/spassky/russia-with-love.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="286" /></p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by A.J. on 11-25-06 @ 1:15 PM</span> <p>That one's like mistletoe at a cubscout jamboree - it's over my head.</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.geocities.com/nma_america/bush-putin_China.jpg" border="0" width="383" height="450" /></p><p><img src="http://www.jamestown.org/photos/Bush_Putin.jpg" border="0" width="378" height="450" /></p><p><img src="http://photos5.flickr.com/6951038_f235879229_m.jpg" border="0" width="220" height="168" />&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.dartmouthindependent.com/archives/bush.putin.afp.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="244" /></p><p><img src="http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,666621,00.jpg" border="0" width="333" height="420" />&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was going to write &quot;caption this&quot; but there's just so many of them. &nbsp;</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p><strong><font size="1">Russia - Return To The Good 'ol Days?</font></strong> </p><p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ">russian fashion show</a>&nbsp; - got to give Fuzzy the assist on this one, she posted it not too long ago. Funny and Classic!</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>Yerdaddy</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>A.J.</strong> wrote:<br /><p>He has anticipated every countermove.</p><p><img src="http://www.chesscorner.com/worldchamps/spassky/russia-with-love.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="286" /></p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by A.J. on 11-25-06 @ 1:15 PM</span> <p>That one's like mistletoe at a cubscout jamboree - it's over my head.</p><p>See &quot;From Russia...With Love&quot;.</p>

[Furtherman]

<p>The NY Post had an excellent article yesterday that was reprinted from the London Sunday Times about the whole story.&nbsp; It was fasinating, truly the stuff of great spy stories.&nbsp; I could not find it online, but here is a similar article with all those involved.</p><h1><font size="2"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2462023,00.html" target="_blank">Kremlin gave order to kill dissident and former spy, claims top defector</a></font></h1>

[angrymissy]

<p>Has anyone been following this story?&nbsp; It's crazy shit!&nbsp; I was watching a documentary a few weeks ago on the reporter that was killed in Russia.&nbsp; Her family and lawyers opened up an appeal showing that the person they say killed her couldn't have done it (with eyewitnesses), and the Russian courts/government basically ignored them.&nbsp; Now, they've found traces of radiation all over London, on planes, and <strong>a former Russian PM is showing signs of poisioning</strong>.</p>

[TheMojoPin]

I swear to God, this is like the best Christmas ever.

[HBox]

<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15982735/" target="_blank">Litvinenko's wife and an Italian security expert who met with Litvinenko that day also found with traces of polonium.</a>

[Furtherman]

<p>When I first started following this story, I thought, and posted &quot;How KGBish&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But now I'm thinking &quot;How clownish!&quot;&nbsp; Whoever did this poisoning must have been leaking polonium out of his pants.&nbsp; It's everywhere!</p>

[Freakshow]

Russian official: The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.
American official: The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Russian official: Yes, that's what we wanted you to think! [laughs]

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When I was looking for that picture and I found this and just can't resist posting it

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[Yerdaddy]

<p><u><font color="#0000ff">traces of polonium.</font></u> </p><p>Ew!</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>The Mafia-cracy in Russia continues</p><p><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&amp;sid=1077963">UPDATE: SOVIET EXPERT SHOT NEAR D.C. HOME...</a><br /> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17424538/">...4 DAYS AFTER 'DATELINE' INTERVIEW</a> </strong></font><br /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) - An expert on Russian intelligence was critically injured in a shooting in front of his suburban Washington home, authorities said. </p><p>&nbsp;The shooting of Paul Joyal, 53, came days after he accused the Russian government of involvement in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. The FBI was assisting in the investigation.</p><p>Joyal was shot Thursday by two men in his driveway, police said.</p>The shooting appeared to be a random robbery and street shooting, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person did not have authority to comment on the case.&nbsp;In an interview broadcast last Sunday on &quot;Dateline NBC,&quot; Joyal also accused the Russian government of trying to silence its critics.<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you, and we will silence you _ in the most horrible way possible,&quot; Joyal said.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Some things never change. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Bulldogcakes on 3-4-07 @ 10:57 AM</span>

[Furtherman]

My muscular buttocks that was a random shooting!

[A.J.]

<p>&quot;In Soviet Russia, people always get shot after the interview!&quot;</p><p><img src="http://www.discoversanta.com/images/yakov.jpg" border="0" width="227" height="247" /></p>

[Furtherman]

Russian activist found murdered (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8152351.stm)

A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus.

She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. Her body was found in Ingushetia.

Ms Estemirova, who was 50 according to Russian prosecutors, had worked in the past with the activists Anna Politkovskaya (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/07/david-remnick-natalia-estemirova.html), who was shot dead in 2006, and Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in January this year.

Yikes. Any other friends in that circle? You can run...

[LordJezo]

How is it any different than what is going on here now that Obama is around?

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html

Go against Obama and you go against the state. All critics are being blacklisted and access restricted just like any non open society would do.

The whole new world order is up to the same thing, Savage banned from the UK shows the global reach of the censorship being put on everyday citizens across the western globe.

[Furtherman]

Keep your illogical, asinine rants about Obama in the Obama thread.


...or perferably in your magical gym.

[LordJezo]

Keep your illogical, asinine rants about Obama in the Obama thread.


...or perferably in your magical gym.

I am off to the gym now.

Earlier in the week we discussed eugenics and how fluoride is code for population control drugs.

[A.J.]

I am off to the gym now.

Earlier in the week we discussed eugenics and how fluoride is code for population control drugs.

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