Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has ordered officials to speed up the construction of a cultural centre in Sevastopol, the historic naval capital of Crimea, which will include exhibition space for the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. In May this year, Putin inaugurated a $7.5bn bridge to link the Crimean city of Kerch with the Russian mainland.
— The Art Newspaper
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Stop with the propaganda annexation bullshit already. Crimea voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia after refusing to recognize the authority of the US-backed coup-imposed neo-Nazi government of Ukraine.
International election monitors refuted suggestions of violations in the Crimean referendum
Meanwhile US special forces were operating clandestinely in Ukraine. The linked video is of a Ukrainian television reporter, it gets interesting around 2:20 when she tries to interview a Ukrainian solider.
"Voted"
With 147% of precincts reporting, apparently it's a landslide.
Oh wow. There's a putinist on architect!
Believe what you want. I'm not buying anything from the guys that gave us non-existent WMDs in Iraq, operated black prisons off-shore to "legalize" torture, lied to congress about domestic surveillance, admitted spying on the US Senate, etc., etc., etc.
I need a lot more than "anonymous intelligence officials citing secret documents" (NYT) or claims of "fake news" in a newspaper (WaPo) owned by a guy with $600m in CIA contracts who sits on a Pentagon advisory board (Bezos).
If you're going to be a sheep you should probably learn to Baaa. Or you could learn to think critically, which (ironically) is what you are supposed to be trained to do as an architect.
I think you are confusing acceptance of kremlin propaganda for critical thinking. Is it not possible that both the United States erroneously conducted a war in Iraq, AND Russia is using disinformation to try to diminish western support for the Ukraine?
Straw man - you have not contested or refuted anything I posted. You are perfectly willing and apparently eager to blindly accept US propaganda without question.
i don't have to believe us propaganda to reject russian propaganda--i can simply reject it all.
i mean putin himself has admitted that russia supported crimean separatist groups and militias, and russian special forces did occupy the crimean parliament in february, where they cut landlines, confiscated phones, and forced a vote disposing the existing PM, who was promptly replaced by a hitherto marginalized dude whose russian unity party maybe received 5% of the vote in the previous election
and all of this was done in secret with zero oversight by journalists. but sure, totally above board, votes at gunpoint=votes
Read the first link. 168 election monitors from 68 countries, no irregularities reported. Maybe we should discuss real US election malfeasance like money in politics, political party collusion with candidates, gerrymandering, hanging chads, the Supreme Court denying a recount, voter roll purges and restrictions, media manipulation, superdelegates, and so on?
Miles, you might as well just credit the original source, Tass: http://tass.com/politics/994802
Another Straw Man. And there is no basis for your assertion that Tass is "the original source". Both articles were published on the same date, two days after the event.
Ooooh, watch out for those evil Russians. They spent almost $100,000 on Facebook ads for a variety of things including ads for and against both candidates in a $2 billion dollar election.
I'm not sure you know what a straw man is. If you are more comfortable with Russian news sources, fine, but don't confuse your preference for other sources with critical thinking.
You are of course aware that European Business Review is a free in-flight magazine? That all the credible international election monitors stayed home because no sensible person can recognize an election as credible when the region is being occupied by one of the proponents army and paramilitaries? That any election with a 96% consensus is obviously a sham?
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I will admit to a predisposition to dismiss domestic news based on a number of things including the flim "
I will admit to a predisposition to dismiss domestic news based on a number of things including the films "Spin" by Brian Springer and "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" by Robert Kane Pappas. These eye-opening films about the media and politics should be required viewing in high school. Jon Stwart showed (via clips of the exact same phrase repeated on TV news programs coast-to-coast) how there is clearly a nationally coordinated script. Beware when they march in lockstep to a drumbeat, like WMDs in Iraq - remember when they accused Saddam of being behind 9/11?
As such I tend to have a somewhat more sympathetic ear to independent news services, many foreign, that are certainly not without their own biases. The Straw Man here is dismissing anything solely because of its source - even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Tass isn't wrong because it's Tass, just like the NYT is wrong because it's the NYT. There is no evidence that the article originated with Tass. That it appeared in an in-flight magazine instead of the NYT or WaPo (owned by CIA contractor Bezos)? Draw your own conclusions.
Russia gave Ukraine Crimea in 1954. Ukraine has its own cultural identity separate from Russia, which not even Stalin could crush. I doubt Putin is gonna do it, museum or not.
You can do takebacks. Russia isn’t gonna get Alaska back either, unless Trump gets a second term.
All those opinions about Ukraine, lovely. Most people here have probably never been there or would have trouble finding it on a map. Ukraine and Russia are so closely linked, their former democratically elected president Yanukovych didn't even speak Ukrainian, nor did he have to and nor did presidential candidate and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Remember that Orange Revolution that put Viktor Yushchenko in power after the 2004 elections? That charming banker that had his face disfigured. Well, that din't end well did it, because who did the Ukrainian people elect afterwards? Exactly, the same Yanukovych that was kicked out after the Orange Revolution by Yushchenko. But that obviously wasn't allowed so they kicked that same democratically chosen president out...again. Gotta love post-communist "democracy"...
The CIA is balls-deep in Ukraine, as is George Soros and a multitude of other financial interests including Monsanto, energy conglomerates, etc. Hard to have any kind of democracy with all that money flying around. Kind of like the US ...
Pretty scary stuff indeed, all these pseudo-democratic regime changes, and not to forget Trump's Paul Manofort doing PR work for Yanukovych or the shooting down of commercial flight MH17 above Ukraine killing nearly 300 civilians during current president Poroshenko's reign. It stinks and indeed trust no source at face value, here nor there.
I’m doing an arch project with a guy in Ukraine near the Russian border, he said he’s Ukrainian with a certain amount of pride. From what I understand, Ukrainians, like many former Soviet states, have a stronger national identity than even Russians themselves, who know they live in a cynical Petrol-Mob state.
Ukrainians suffered genocide at the hands of Stalin, I don’t imagine they are eager to jump in bed with a Neo-Stalinist thug like Putin. Though their politics are probably confused since there is so much cross propaganda from the East and West. Democracy is messy, but I’d rather have it than what the tin foil hat people here seem to prefer.
It depends who you're working with, it's not so much the proximity to Russia that matters but being left- or right-bank of the Dnipro river that cuts the country in half geographically, historically and electorally. The right-bank on the west side is more oriented towards Europe whereas the left-bank in the east is gravitating towards Russia obviously. And yes, Ukrainians suffered under Stalin, everybody suffered under Stalin, but they were not only very eager to join the Nazi's (right-bank) or the Sovjets (left-bank), voluntarily, and committed genocide themselves no matter if they fought together with the Nazi's or the Communists ( google Volyn or Babi Yar or ask someone from Poland for example)
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