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Here is a better translation: http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4119395.html

I see. Yes, the translation is off. Still I am curious how this can possibly distract from the main point - mass murder in an European city in 2014. Well, I hope there will be a be…

Seems like the HN community wishes to just ignore this info.

The fact the photos are from 2013 or someone at Maidan was wearing an old Nazi symbol of Svoboda does not justify the statements "There is no anti-Semitism in Ukraine" and "Svoboda…

> What an amazing argument, because there are only two media outlets in the world -- Fox News and Huffington Post. No, I prefer Völkischer Beobachter obviously. To call a news sour…

> And that's again a load of bullshit. Is this true or not, in your opinion: Andriy Parubiy, the new secretary of Ukraine's security council, was a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Socia…

> from garbage sources by useful leftist idiots from Huffington Post and like. I appreciate your level-headed unbiased approach. You prefer Fox News, I presume? > That's just so pa…

I admit I did not know about the letter from the Ukrainian Jews to Putin. I do not know what motivated them to write such a letter. It could be Bandera followers standing over them…

> Eh, neo-Nazis to call to armed struggle against the state? That's just bullshit. Why do you think it's bullshit? Have you seen those images from Kiev of people throwing cobbles a…

Here you are thinking about Russia in your Western categories. Those who did exit did so not because they want to be able to speak up against Putin, but for economic or professiona…

> I really don't see what every media outlet that isn't Russian state-controlled would have to gain from distributing "biased" journalism. That's in theory. In reality, I see a ver…

My impression from reading Russian blogs on LiveJournal is that there are two kinds of people in Russia right now: those extremely anti-Putin and those extremely pro-Putin, in abou…

Also this: "publish or perform any benchmark or performance tests or analysis relating to the Service or the use thereof without express authorization from AlchemyAPI;" Suppose I a…

> No matter how core it is to your religion, you may not injure or kill me. Well, you should respect my religion or at least be sensitive about it (if you want to have some dialog)…

Ok, so you don't mean it's the God suddenly introduced democracy in new countries, but revolutions; the revolutions started because the population was unhappy - not about the lack …

> genital mutilation. It's all disgraceful behaviour, ... If your culture is a culture of repression then no, I do not have to respect it. Right there, you violated a human right, …

> I didn't say personal preference, I said preference. It's not a choice you make, but it is an orientation. Straight sexual orientation is clearly biological. So it's not a questi…

Homosexuality stopped being illegal in Russia in 1993 ( http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%... ).

If it's a personal preference, then this has to do with culture, not biology. If it's a cultural thing, then you should realize there are different cultures out there, and one cult…

By democracy I mean principles like a multi-partite political system, free speech, commitment to securing human rights. I am not talking about freedom as such - surely the idea of …

I am not sure about that. Yes, they are oriented towards the West, but they too were in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union for a long time, except Western-most regions that were p…

You seem to think that democracy is some God-given quality, universal to all people, and you can introduce it into any country just by invading it or inducing a regime change in so…

Ok, it's well-meaning EU vs. corrupt Russia. Culturally, Ukraine seems to be much closer to Russia than to EU. So I think the end result will be similar to what happened with Arabi…

> It was heaven for Russians, because a nation that has been historically at the bottom of the ladder, got to play in the big leagues. Who cares if your standard of living sucks? I…

> Ukraine has a culture, a history, a language. That culture, history, and language is UKRAINIAN. Not Russian. > After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine started clawing back its own he…