The most delicate thing is reporting own causalities. Sure, no one wants to be Russia who don't care about their own dead but immediate reporting of causalities is an idiocy bordering treason.
I think by "Russia" you really meant "Ukraine", given the way Ukraine has been drafting and sending under shells the most economically and politically active part of population, with only the most basic of training, despite the past claims that "60% of Ukraine's army consists of professional troops",
circa 2013, Yanukovich's statement. Unlike, you know, Russia, that actually uses its professional formations up front, with far better efficiency than Ukraine could ever hope to reach (because, as we know by this point, Ukraine has never actually won an engagement with Russian forces in which the Russian forces wanted to win).
Also, oppressing freedom of speech by citing "treason"? Very Soviet-like. You know, modern Ukraine reminds me of USSR quite a lot, actually, and your previous statements that, paraphrased, say that "journalists are the enemy, because they tell people things that they shouldn't tell" and "traitors must be shot on sight by the conscious citizens/"new militia" with no trial, since a trial may acquit the traitor due to unreliability of judges" and etc, are very in line with what an average Soviet Party functionary would say when dealing with some state that has just recently been conquered by local communists and thus is still considered to be full of "capitalist dogs". The polarity is reversed, but the key attitudes are the same.
This to me seems to be the main tragedy of Maidan, and the Ukrainian state in general - it would be good if it was actually, you know, aiming to create a more European state. But in reality, what it does is bringing out the worst traits of Soviet Union, repainting them in a different color, so that it looks, at the first sight, as anti-Soviet, and just keeps doing the same bad things, over and over.
The corruption in Ukraine, the very reason why Maidan has gathered and what it aimed to reduce or eliminate altogether after the revolution, is stronger than ever, and there's no evidence that this will change any time soon. Or if there is even any way for it to change without mass shooting a significant portion of country's government apparatus, party members, oligarchs, just plain rich businessmen, notorious "field commanders", and just anyone more-or-less influential - which would obviously create something more in line with Mao Zedong's China, rather than a European state.
And that's just one issue. There are many, many more, including the non-competitive production, the ever-increasing foreign debt, the non-functional government (which is loosely related to the issue of corruption, but the sheer dysfunctionality of that mess makes it something else), the incredibly high and growing public distrust of said government (Yatsenuk, a head of Ukrainian parliament, is in single digits and is universally disliked, to a point of having an impeachment attempt against him (that failed because Ukrainian government is a dysfunctional corrupt mess); Poroshenko doesn't fare much better). These issues do
not posit any kind of good outlook on the future of Ukrainian state.
And you know what's the most bad part about this is? An average response of an Ukrainian here would be "but all of these issues are even worse in Russia, according to our totally impartial and truthful media outlets, and that totally makes it OK, because the only thing that matters is that we, Ukraine, are better than Russia!"
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