Polish vodka it is :)
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You are forgetting that Romania started building its own empire in 1918 and grabbed Moldova from Russia when Russia was incapacitated by the civil war.
>They interfered heavily with last week's referendum
The interference on the West's part was huge: "Moldova’s presidential election and the constitutional referendum were being closely watched by Moscow, Brussels and Washington, all of which have sought to sway the outcome.
The United States and the European Union have offered economic support, including a package worth about $2 billion announced during a recent visit to Moldova by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission."
>reasons to love Russia
Many Moldovans who at least don't mind Russia are working in Russia. In 2020-2021's elections Moldova opened 17 voting locations in Russia, but Sandu's pro-Western government opened only 2. This way Moldovan diaspora in Russia was effectively cut off from voting while Moldovan emigrants in EU had no problems. Considering that the margin was very thin (50.35% vs 49.65%) that changed the result of the referendum.
"There were more than 50 polling stations in Italy, 17 in the United States, and two in Russia (both in Moscow)." [1]
>Please stop portraying Russia as the Liberating Army when in reality it's more like the Occupying Army.
With few exceptions, after 1945 the USSR controlled the countries which participated in the Nazi's invasion. I don't think any apologies towards Nazi allies are in order.
> I forget to mention that we're still waiting for Russia to give our gold back after we sent it to them for safe keeping.
It's ironic that you are telling me this at the time when the West grabbed 300 billions of Russian foreign reserves which Russia trusted the West to keep.
A member of the House of Lords, Lord Lea, has written to the London Review of Books saying that shortly before she died, fellow peer and former MI6 officer Daphne Park told him Britain had been involved in the death of Patrice Lumumba, the elected leader of the Congo, in 1961.
When he asked her whether MI6 might have had something to do with it, he recalls her saying: "We did. I organised it."
When the US illegally invaded and devastated Iraq in 2003 under the fake pretense of WMD weapons, no sanctions against the US from the other Western countries followed. And of course the US didn't sanction itself and the American people reelected the president who started that war instead of surrendering him to the International Criminal Court.
So, if one constructs a logical chain from that, invading a country doesn't lead to any punishment, neither internationally nor domestically.
It's not their software. Linux kernel is written by thousands of people from all around the world.
That was a strawman argument.
You are funny.
BRICS meeting is currently happening in Russia and the leaders who gathered there represent more than a half of world's population: "Putin returns to world stage hosting 36 leaders at Brics summit in Russia"[0].
>I can't deploy VMs in Russia
Really? You are welcome to click "Start your trial period" at Yandex Cloud. [1]
>Similarly, I can't buy property, start a business, buy shares directly
Of course you can.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/22/putin-brics...
What you were betting? You farm, hopefully?
But the point is that most people won't bother to google the pronunciation, listen to it and make an effort to repeat close enough. By the way, Dr. Turyshev's name is the easy part, the surname is the real challenge)
The reason is that you won't bother to pronounce Vyacheslav so Russians have to use a short version of their name.