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To take you literally for a moment: if anyone can claim land across a border, based on a historical grievance, then no border would stand. 70 years without a border war in Europe, so yeah we should try to push that water back up the hill. Otherwise a recursive "I would like my land back please."
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There's probably no hard proof, but Russia is allegedly funding far-right movements like AfD and whatever Le Pen's party in France is now called. Also, see the career of Gerhard Schroeder, first German chancellor and then a top Gazprom official.
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Putin’s inner circle spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, had his daughter Elizaveta as an assistant to the far-right Aymeric Chauprade, a French Member of the European Parliament.[0]
You will see “coincidentally” similar connections across major western powers like the UK, US, Germany, and Italy.
[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/25/daughter-putin-s...
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Many Jews got killed in the 40s because they'd registered themselves as Jews many years back, way before Hitler was a thing. A lot of Ukrainians suddenly found themselves on Russian [claimed] soil and under Russian jurisdiction just a few months ago. There are certain nations before which I'm not going to incriminate myself, out of precaution, Russia and China among them.
If my country suddenly becomes Russian or China occupied territory, them having my search history is very far down my list of worries.
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>Russian corruption doesn't generally touch Western governments No offense but the fact that someone on HN could get to this conclusion is rather shocking to me. Western Europe has plenty of russian corruption and I'm afraid the ongoing war has unearthed only a fraction of it.
For example?
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Can you name off the top of your head the last 3 significant privatizations?
> Can you name off the top of your head the last 3 significant privatizations? In the UK, privatisation of Network Rail arches (which will 'break even' for the buyers in about ten years), privatisation or TfL land in London at below-market prices to property developers, and the backdoor privatisation of NHS services through public-private partnerships.
- 2010s? Hard to tell what you are referencing
- Not a real example (subcontracting is not the same as selling off state properties).
So yes, 2-3 examples from the UK over the past 2 decades is not really compelling.
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If my country suddenly becomes Russian or China occupied territory, them having my search history is very far down my list of worries.
They may send killers just for you. For example, they are killing Holodomor researchers around the world (genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-1934: 25 millions were starved to death, 20 millions are recorded as Russian, millions were killed or executed).
If you’re some kind of public enemy of Russia, maybe don’t use Russian services of any variety.
Folks are focussing on the Russian part of this. But Yandex just happens to be the one whose source code got analyzed; you can safely substitute "Google" or "Facebook" or any of the other various behavior advertising companies here. They're all doing similar things and it's terrific to have such a detailed analysis of how it works. Wired has a good summary if you want something more like a mainstream press article: h…
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Sounds like capitalism to me.
Kinda, it's basically capitalism with a lot of insider trading, where your connections mattered more than what you did. t. someone from country which underwent that.
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As russian, when I encounter people comparing the state of media in Russia to the worst excesses of government influence in media in US like they are comparable - I think to myself “what a bunch of fucking idiots”. It’s the same ignorant halfwit crowd that compares minor inconvenience to Holocaust, having to follow an HOA rule to Stalin’s repressions, and anyone telling them what they don’t like to Hitler. I live in…
[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/telegram-russia-ban-lift-...