Ukraine Crisis - Page 102

On March 01 2014 23:50 AleXoundOS wrote:

Sh*t is going on...
The decision was approved by 100% of members.

On March 01 2014 23:51 m4ini wrote:


You seriously were surprised by that?

On March 01 2014 23:51 zeo wrote:
Local government buildings taken by anti-junta protesters

On March 01 2014 23:55 AleXoundOS wrote:

Yes.

On March 01 2014 23:55 AleXoundOS wrote:

Yes.

On March 01 2014 23:58 m4ini wrote:


After the duma already called for an "invasion" days ago?

Wow.

On March 01 2014 23:58 Gorsameth wrote:
And so it is once again shown that EU protection is a fucking joke. We will happily promise our protection but as soon as something bigger then a fly shows up we tuck our tails between our legs and run away.

Sickening to see how spineless our leadership has become.

On March 01 2014 23:57 Sent. wrote:


I don't understand how can you post images with Russian flags on Ukrainian teritory and call all this crap anit-junta movement. Why don't you put some swastikas above Kiev to make it look even better?

On March 01 2014 23:58 Gorsameth wrote:
And so it is once again shown that EU protection is a fucking joke. We will happily promise our protection but as soon as something bigger then a fly shows up we tuck our tails between our legs and run away.

Sickening to see how spineless our leadership has become.

On March 01 2014 23:58 lolfail9001 wrote:

Amount of dumb ideas our duma has is usually off the charts, you do not take duma's ideas seriously most of the time.

On March 01 2014 23:58 Gorsameth wrote:
And so it is once again shown that EU protection is a fucking joke. We will happily promise our protection but as soon as something bigger then a fly shows up we tuck our tails between our legs and run away.

Sickening to see how spineless our leadership has become.

On March 01 2014 15:22 MyrMindservant wrote:

Sigh, here we go again. I wish people would refrain from making statements about thing they don't understand. I'll have to repeat myself:
"Ukrainian is the only official language in Ukraine. This is written in our constitution and was present there since we adopted it in 1996. And everything was fine, people still used Russian in all parts of Ukraine without a problem. They just had to use Ukrainian in some formal situations.
In 2012, previous government decided to pass a law that would give Russian language a status of regional. Basically it would allow some regions to use Russian as official even though this contradicts our constitution. Practically, that law had very little impact because Russian was already used everywhere in those regions.

Less than a week ago, parliament had a vote and that law was properly canceled as unconstitutional. Now, many forces are exaggerating this fact and making various scary stories even though we were living fine without that law for more than 16 years."

Even though Russian doesn't have the status of official language, it has never stopped people from using it in official situations, like government and courts. It is one of the many norms in Ukraine that aren't enforced or enforced very loosely.
That law was only pushed through by the previous government to increase its ratings among the pro-russian crowd. And in practice its cancellation hardly changes anything, just like when it was adopted. All these debates about the language issue are full of speculation, some parties are simply using it as an another instrument of propaganda.

On March 02 2014 00:02 zeo wrote:

The people of Ukraine want Russia to protect them. Carrying around Russian flags is no different than carrying EU/US flags at Maidan