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[MarcAFK]

Ooh, I can do Poland!
[Polish Minister mode]
*eats an apple* "Please eat apples, we have so many apples, my children are being crushed to death under the weight of oppressive Russian apple sanctions." *In the background 300 trucks are seen being loaded with bags labeled "humanatarian aid"*
"Oh you wanted a comment about the rada dissolving? I assure you this will not affect the aid convoy we are sending to Ukraine"
*A bag of 'Aid' is visible being dropped, revealing many apples with an "EU REJECTED" label on them*
"Oh shit, don't tell merkel!"

[smjjames]

http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/poroshenko_will_dissolve_rada_next_week___advisor_to_president_325535

Not sure if I'm understanding it completely (due to the english being a bit funky), is poroshenko ending the early election to parliament or is he forcing an early election for parliament?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

So, Putin starts to send 20-year old kids in Ukraine... What happened? Too few Kadyrov's pigs and Spetsnaz butchers remained?

So far all links in Russian:

Alleged video with a captured Russian soldier
Alleged his soon to be deleted social network page
Screenshot of social network page above


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Ninja'd. Yep. He will be forcing early elections. That parliament is outdaed and don't represent so much changed nation

[Sergarr]

I'm sure the parliamentarians will agree with Poroshenko decision and will not in any way, shape or form attempt to stay in power.

[10ebbor10]

On a slightly different note.

Only in Russia, Scaring away tourists with lightling and tesla coils*.

It's not, actually, a Tesla coil. It's a Marx generator.

But what many of them didn’t understand is why their hair began to stand up as they got closer to the mysterious object, and were even more stunned seconds later a blue lights began to strike meters away. Facility chief Vladimir Sysoev says that many were seconds from death, and that it is by pure luck that no one has died during a test.

[Descan]

Sergarr, you know this happens all the time in, you know, functioning democracies, right? Britain and Canada and Australia all come to mind.

I know it'd seem weird to a Russian that people in power might, you know, actually follow the law, but in other places it's a normal thing.

Whether Ukraine, by virtue of being near Russia and having been under the Russian bootheel for so long, counts as a "functioning democracy" is something else. I can certainly see the whole Russian ethos re: "keep a hold of power by any means" could have rubbed off on 'em, though.

[Owlbread]

I may have asked this before, but who is most likely to win the upcoming Rada elections?

[ChairmanPoo]

On a slightly different note.

Only in Russia, Scaring away tourists with lightling and tesla coils*.

It's not, actually, a Tesla coil. It's a Marx generator.

But what many of them didn’t understand is why their hair began to stand up as they got closer to the mysterious object, and were even more stunned seconds later a blue lights began to strike meters away. Facility chief Vladimir Sysoev says that many were seconds from death, and that it is by pure luck that no one has died during a test.

Oh, you're so screwed.... http://youtu.be/WLXBUfgO610?t=34s

[Guardian G.I.]

On a slightly different note.

Only in Russia, Scaring away tourists with lightling and tesla coils*.

It's not, actually, a Tesla coil. It's a Marx generator.

But what many of them didn’t understand is why their hair began to stand up as they got closer to the mysterious object, and were even more stunned seconds later a blue lights began to strike meters away. Facility chief Vladimir Sysoev says that many were seconds from death, and that it is by pure luck that no one has died during a test.

Oh, you're so screwed.... http://youtu.be/WLXBUfgO610?t=34s

Back in the 80s, Soviet Union also had Prism tanks.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(it's an experimental laser emitter mounted on a tank chassis, designed to blind hostile optical sensors)

[Sergarr]

Sergarr, you know this happens all the time in, you know, functioning democracies, right? Britain and Canada and Australia all come to mind.

I know it'd seem weird to a Russian that people in power might, you know, actually follow the law, but in other places it's a normal thing.

Whether Ukraine, by virtue of being near Russia and having been under the Russian bootheel for so long, counts as a "functioning democracy" is something else. I can certainly see the whole Russian ethos re: "keep a hold of power by any means" could have rubbed off on 'em, though.

1) I'm pretty sure Britain is not a democracy. "The UK's form of government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system"
2) I remember this thing as a thing that happened. Some pretty intense power struggle there.

[Dutchling]

1) I'm pretty sure Britain is not a democracy. "The UK's form of government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system"

Republic is the word you're looking for. The UK is not a republic.

[Sergarr]

1) I'm pretty sure Britain is not a democracy. "The UK's form of government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system"

Republic is the word you're looking for. The UK is not a republic.

Sergarr, you know this happens all the time in, you know, functioning democracies, right? Britain and Canada and Australia all come to mind.

I know it'd seem weird to a Russian that people in power might, you know, actually follow the law, but in other places it's a normal thing.

Whether Ukraine, by virtue of being near Russia and having been under the Russian bootheel for so long, counts as a "functioning democracy" is something else. I can certainly see the whole Russian ethos re: "keep a hold of power by any means" could have rubbed off on 'em, though.

okay

[Descan]

Democracy =/= Republic.

The people in Britain who do (most) of the deciding are elected. Except for the Queen, who is a figurehead but has some influence, and the House of Lords, which are a horrible thing to still have, Britain is a democracy, and if the parliament is dissolved and new elections are called, the House of Commons goes along with it.

The same thing happened here a couple years ago. The Governor General, who acts in the Queens stead here in Canada, was asked by the Prime Minster to dissolve the parliament and call an election. The election that followed gave him a majority government, where-as before he only had a minority government, and thus was constrained in what he could do.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The whole "not a democracy" thing frustrates me more than any other polisci statement there is. Both republics and monarchies can be democratic or non-democratic. If political power is distributed by the consensus of the population, then the system is a democracy.

[Sergarr]

What if the consensus of population is to elect a dictator, ala this ?