#Russian border

[gurutrends]

A group of armed Ukrainians tried to cross the Russian border

An “armed group” attempted to cross the border from Ukraine into the Russian region of Bryansk on Sunday. Ukrainians failed to cross the border. Russian forces foiled their attempted incursion into southwestern Russia. This is what Russia reports. This time, the attempt took place in Bryansk, which borders the Kursk province, where Ukraine seized a thousand square kilometers of territory in a…

[rightnewshindi]

रूस बॉर्डर के 30 किमी अंदर तक घुसा यूक्रेन के 1000 सैनिक, पुतिन ने की आपातकाल की घोषणा

Russia Ukraine War: यूक्रेन ने पहली बार रूस की सीमा में घुसकर हमला बोला है. रूस ने यूक्रेन से बड़े पैमाने पर घुसपैठ के बाद जवाबी कार्रवाई करते हुए कुर्स्क इलाके में “संघीय स्तर” की आपात स्थिति का ऐलान किया है. जहां शुक्रवार (9 अगस्त) को अतिरिक्त सुरक्षा बल भेजा गया है. ये फैसला सैकड़ों यूक्रेनी सैनिकों की ओर से बार्��र पार करने के 4 दिन बाद उठाया गया, जो युद्ध शु��ू होने के बाद से रूसी धरती पर कीव…

[merulast]

To Tokyo by public transport, Day 10 - The end

This post is going to be an very tough one. Please understand that I will try to make it as short as possible.

Trans Kavkaz

This post is written from the subjective position of an west european person. Many might not understand. But for me it was the pure horror to travel with Trans Kavkaz. Personal thing. Might not apply to you.

Trans Kavkaz offers bus rides from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz. They are an russian company and charge 2000 rubel aka 20€ for a ride. You can book via whatsapp. They are friendly and kind.

About the driving. He does 90 in a 50 Zone. Also in towns with dogs, children and or cows.

He turns over whatever gets in front of him. Whenever. Where ever.

Even on the mountain roads when there is an 50 meter cliff just centimeters besides of you. He wont hesitate to go 90 in a 40 zone and turn over

And yes of course you cannot see if there is something on the other lane. There pits all the time. He just 'trusts' that there will be no truck to kill us all

Once there WAS a truck. We just moved back to the right, pushing the car to our right off the lane. It was pure luck that there had been 1 meter of gravel before the cliff. Otherwise that guy would had been dead.

I will never. NEVER drive with this company again. I will never even drive this road again knowing, people like him are out there. I would never ever cross this area in general again. I feel happy for everyone that feels like this is nothing special. For the others in the bus it was nothing special.

Hell!

The Border

I hopped out the bus. Kissed the ground a few times. Was able not to puke. Showed my Passport and E-Visa. They had some questions, that s why I had to come to the back office for someone that could translate. In fact they just wanted to know where I want to go and why. China and Tourist was okay as response.

Vladikavkaz

In Vladikavkaz I got kicked out of the bus since my special threatment on the boarder had caused some delay in the schedule and he had to make up for it.

The city itself is an 100% Soviet Style city and is wonder full and clean. I had no trouble getting an Russian sim card near the central bus Station (in a Mal to the south) and if the first Taxi would not have put me to the wrong KFC I would also had no issue with getting to my hostel that I booked online.

I would really liked to spend more time here. I even saw gaming Shops where you could play PC games.

If only. Well. There was not this bad feeling. Not only the near dead bus ride I just had. But also the bigger issues. It's so sad. I still don't understand the 'why' behind all this actions. I wish I could enjoy this part of my journey without this huge shadow lingering around.

Rock Hostel

I simply selected the Rock hostel because with 7€ a night it was the most cheap option to book from outside of Russia. I somehow expected it to be an ugly thing like the Train-Hotel in Georgia. Maybe worse. With probably fleas and stuff. You know. For that price and seeing hotels being worse.

But no. ROCK Hostel ROCKS!

Its location? Close to the tourist sections. Its price? Unbeatable!

The whole thing is inside an old industry building with 5 meter high walls. They use this extra space to introduce 3 level Beds. 3 Levels! I Love this shit. I love the whole, very clean industrial style of the Building. The general room has an kitchen with everything. The bathrooms and toilets are clean and they offer water and snacks right into the hostel.

For me it was 12 out of 10. It shows how much you could do with such an place. Thank you so much.

(I loved this!)

And last but not least: They have an washing machine and a dryer just for free use. I was able to finally wash my stuff. This alone deserves pure love.

Summary

Very intense Day. I spend 7€ for the whole thing. How? Because Transhellkaz forgot to take my money. And to be honest: When kicked out if was so deep in shock. I simply forgot. Sorry for being not sorry about being not sorry.

For this money you could just buy any Lego mini figure. Any. Or an booster pack. Have fun.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

[bookloversofbath]

The Invisible Flag: A Report :: Peter Bamm

The Invisible Flag: A Report :: Peter Bamm

[kyitsya]

it genuinely pisses me off that ukraine has to resort to pointing at its civilian death count to garner sympathy and action from the world.

can you even imagine how many of our soldiers have laid down their lives to push russia back? for some reason, there is this belief that soldiers’ lives do not matter once they become combatants, yet before they took up the role they were ordinary civilians just like the rest of us. they were teachers, bakers, students. they had peaceful lives, they have families, and they just want ukraine to be safe and at peace so that they may return to those lives.

they matter, they count towards our death toll, yet people see news of our soldiers passing and dont even spare a second glance. they are ukrainians too, they matter. with every day that russia invades us, ukrainians are dying, whether they are civilians or not.

heroyam slava 🕯️

[eliounora]

miku in a karelian feresi🌲

[justacynicalromantic]

In early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral country, with a pro-Russian president, and with 70% of Ukraine's population against NATO membership. Yet Russia bluntly violated Ukraine's neutrality and annexed Crimea, then launched a covert invasion of Ukraine in the east.

Petro Poroshenko won the presidential election later in 2014 having promised a settlement with Russia, keeping a special status of the Russian language in Ukraine. He was initially sceptical regarding NATO accession, underlined Ukraine must rely on its own strength to provide security.

Did Putin meet Poroshenko halfway? Not at all. The regular Russian army entered the Ukrainian territory in mid-2014 to fight the Ukrainian troops, which led to the Minsk-1 agreement signed in September 2014.

Further text - down under the cut, or you can follow the Twitter link to the original post:

Few weeks later, Ukraine's parliament adopted a law that would guarantee the then Russia-controlled part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions additional economic, financial and cultural powers.

How did Putin react? Russia staged sham local elections in the occupied Donbas, and then sent the regular army again to Ukraine in early 2015, which led to the Minsk-2 agreement signed in February 2015.

Zelensky was even more sceptical regarding NATO accession. Asked about NATO, he once famously said he never pays anyone a visit if he has not been invited. He won the presidential election promising to compromise with Russia - to stop shooting, sit down with Putin and talk.

Did Putin meet Zelensky halfway? Not at all. He actually raised the stakes by issuing the Russian passports on the occupied territories of Ukraine even before Zelensky assumed the office, putting him in a difficult political position since the start.

Zelensky was ready to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in an exchange for the Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine. The talks were held already before 2022. What did Putin do? He launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In the first weeks of the invasion, Zelensky was yet again ready to drop Ukraine's NATO bid. But he wanted to obtain international security guarantees. What did Putin do? He demanded that Russia must be consulted before any aid would be given to Ukraine in the event of aggression.

To sum up, Ukraine has consistently tried to reach a deal with Russia over the last decade, and was open to giving up on its NATO bid in exchange for the withdrawal of the Russian troops from Ukraine. Russia never reciprocated, never showed a good will, kept raising the stakes.

Both Poroshenko and Zelensky were initially sceptical regarding Ukraine's accession to NATO. Both wanted to get a deal with Putin. And Putin himself pushed both of them to seek NATO membership out of no other viable alternatives.

Up till now, Putin has shown absolutely no willingness to compromise with Ukraine. His war aims remain maximalist - subjugating Ukraine and changing its regime. He seeks Ukraine's partition, and will turn what is left of Ukraine into Russian protectorate.

Russia's imperial self-conception is that of Russian elites at large, and not just Vladimir Putin. The Russian leadership simply cannot reconcile with the existence of a sovereign Ukrainian statehood.

Therefore any sustainable Ukrainian-Russian compromise is currently not possible unless the Russian cost-benefit calculus changes. Only credible risk to the stability of the Russian regime would impact this calculus. The easiest way goes through defeating Russia in Ukraine.

[hiraethwrote]

just woke up to see the results. sending all my love to my american friends. i hope you manage to stay safe despite everything

[simply-ivanka]

“Without congressional action, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine and to provide equipment from US military stocks,” Young wrote to political leaders of both parties. “There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this moment. We are out of money — and nearly out of time,” she said.

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One word: GOOD!

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

Dear Poles, YOU HAVE FALLEN VICTIM TO A RUSSIAN PSYOP THOSE ARE RUSSIAN PSYOP WORDS YOU'RE SPREADING "THOSE ARE VALID CONCERNS--" YOU ARE BLOCKING IMPORTANT MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO A NATION BEING INVADED AND SUBJECT TO GENOCIDE. YOU COULD'VE CHOSEN ANY OTHER AVENUE OF PROTESTING, BUT YOU SPECIFICALLY CHOSE THE ONE THAT IS AIDING AND ABETTING OUR ENEMIES. YOUR ENEMIES.

PLEASE, STOP AND THINK. Respectfully, Someone who really doesn't want to have my city leveled because of someone's misplaced and short-sighted economic concerns stoked by misha the gru agent.

[thewhimsyturtle]

It's almost time to cross over into the long weekend! But why do I have to wait one more day? And why is there no radicchio at the rock buffet?

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

🤣🤣🤣

[captain-price-unofficially]

RKKA infantry and tanks attack Japanese positions, Khalkhin-Gol, Mongolia, 1939

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

Fyodor/Nikolai/Sigma, domestic au, but they are painfully slavic and living their best lives, is something that can be so personal.

(this post took forever cause I essentially had to make it twice. I didn't look at what blog I originally posted this to the first time round. shoot me)

[470nanometers]

Just a reminder as US 2024 voting is on-going: DO NOT VOTE FOR A 3rd PARTY!

Any vote for a 3rd party is a vote for that orange wannabe-hitler.