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Probably concern that he was becoming unhinged enough to put commercial contracts at risk. There are more... fitting... positions right now for a raving nationalist lunatic, I'm sure he'll land on his feet in the DPR or LPR.
They did that already by placing additional conditions on OneWeb to continue launching their sats and then when OneWeb refused they just kept the satellites and money while cancelling the contract.
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Rogozin is a member of ultra-right movement. Like real "Russia for russians" and similar BS.
Why is “Russia for Russians” bs? Sounds like a reasonable thing to say even if you disagree.
It’s has a few connotations. The mildest is proposing to throw all colored people out of the cities. The most severe is to exterminate them.
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Rogozin is a member of ultra-right movement. Like real "Russia for russians" and similar BS.
Why is “Russia for Russians” bs? Sounds like a reasonable thing to say even if you disagree.
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Yeah, that seems to be becoming the new "sent to Siberia", although I very much doubt he'll be placing himself directly in danger, unless he had no choice. Either way, he picked his poison long ago.
He doesn't have to expose himself directly, any occupant or even local in russia's puppet government will be a prime suspect to get removed permanently, as symbolic and also practical gesture. He will still need to travel, meet people etc. and no hiding in bunker will be allowed for such a person, that's only reserved for putin. There is already vicious spiral of oppression and resistance happening on those parts of…
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Rogozin is a member of ultra-right movement. Like real "Russia for russians" and similar BS.
Why is “Russia for Russians” bs? Sounds like a reasonable thing to say even if you disagree.
pretty sure many Turkic, Mongolic, etc. people lived in what is now Russia long before a Russian state existed.
That's treating the phrase an an ethnic thing, you might say "well clearly they mean Russian as a Nationality" but in that case Russia already belongs to Russians.
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Rogozin is a member of ultra-right movement. Like real "Russia for russians" and similar BS.
Why is “Russia for Russians” bs? Sounds like a reasonable thing to say even if you disagree.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. The guy is a long-time far right activist (and a journo by education and trade, no connections to aerospace whatsoever). His twitter reflects that perfectly, at least in Russian. His appointment as a head of space industry was unexpected, to put it mildly, especially at the time when Kremlin was stomping on nationalists.
Yeah, he was heading actual Nazi parades. There are enough videos on YouTube with him at the rallies wearing a leather jacket with saluting neo-Nazis around. He also uses N-words and F-words freely. He first gained notoriety at 2003 parliament elections leading a pro-Putin ultranationalist party Rodina. One of Rodina’s TV ads were comparing Caucausus people to street trash. People say though that Rogozin is not a big…
> One of Rodina’s TV ads were comparing Caucausus people to street trash.
This seems to be a common trait across the political spectrum in Russia. The darling of the west, Alexei Navalny, is just as nationalist and xenophobic, and while he doesn't compare people from the Caucasus as trash, he did compare them to vermin that need to be exterminated in his TV ads.
From what little I unfortunately saw from him on twitter, this guy is the Russian equivalent of a hardcore Nazi.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The guy is a long-time far right activist (and a journo by education and trade, no connections to aerospace whatsoever). His twitter reflects that perfectly, at least in Russian. His appointment as a head of space industry was unexpected, to put it mildly, especially at the time when Kremlin was stomping on nationalists.
His dad was a highly ranked general and engineer.
His wife has several prominent realtives that worked in Soviet space programs.
That's a geat example of nepotism, the main social lift in contemporary Russia.
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Rogozin is a member of ultra-right movement. Like real "Russia for russians" and similar BS.
Why is “Russia for Russians” bs? Sounds like a reasonable thing to say even if you disagree.
This distinction is a very frequent source of misunderstanding for both native speakers and English speakers, as Russians might hear one where you imply another, and vice versa.