They didn't need any referendum when they fast tracked Finland and Sweden into NATO and they won't need them in this case either if they can manage to keep their puppets in power and their grip on the country's institutions through their network of NGOs.
Here's a map to put things into perspective:
I won't try to predict how far they can still go or how long until Russia kicks them out (it's only a matter of time), but what's clear is that the more resources they throw into this incursion the faster Russia advances in the Donbass.
It's sad that they were duped but hopefully this experience has taught them a lesson.
falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending
I don't know man, maybe i'm just dumb but when prices keep rising to the point i can't afford to buy anything but the bare necessities of life that kinda tends to discourage me from spending, you know?
I guess that's on me for not taking econ 101, if i did i would have known that the right thing to do to avert a financial crisis is go buy a new TV with money you don't have. Thank you brilliant economic geniuses at Fortune for teaching me!
Mom, the bot is stuck on repeat again!
Unfortunately when emotions run high over a conflict like the one in Gaza it becomes easier for bad actors to manipulate the emotions of people and rile them up to do stupid things. According to a lot of Russian sources this event was organized and incited over Telegram channels with ties to Russian dissidents working for Ukrainian intelligence.
Undoubtedly the Russian government will come down hard on this, as they should. This is not a good look and is a breach of security at a major airport in a time of war. Criminal indictments are probably going to rain.
And yet even this lackluster and corrupt implementation of a state led industrial model is still more than enough to beat hyper-financialized neoliberalism.
KPRF is the old-school Marxist-Leninist communist party and the one which is most principled anti-imperialist. It's also by far the biggest one, in fact it's the second biggest political force in Russia behind Putin's liberal United Russia party.
The other "communist parties" that exist in Russia are insignificant fringe groups of Trotskyists and ultra-leftists who hate Putin so much that they would rather side with the imperialists and help them destroy Russia thinking they can do another revolution after this government is toppled kind of like Trotskyists thought that they could have a second revolution if Stalin was defeated by the Nazis. It is no coincidence that some of them are outright funded by the West...
Indeed, it is an indication that desperation is setting in, but they still labor under the delusion that if they can't outright win they can get some sort of draw. That's not how this works. And i know some Russian comrades are very jaded and cynical and expect that the Russian leadership will end up capitulating to a "compromise" the first chance they get, but just going by the public comments that they have been making for a while now it seems to me like the mood is uncompromising and hardened as they no longer trust that any agreements with the West are possible.
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Never heard of phenylephrine but we have shit over in Europe too that does fuck-all, like that "homeopathic" bullcrap. Last time i went to visit my grandma i happened to have a cold and she immediately tried giving me some stuff called "oscillococcinum". I got suspicious when i looked over the packaging so i looked it up, and turns out it's basically nothing but sugar claiming to be imbued with some magic properties thanks to "trace" (read ZERO) amounts of something or other.
Pisses me the fuck off...they advertise the shit out of it on TV and they get gullible old people to waste their money. And their pensions are already meager in eastern Europe, they don't need to be scammed out of their money with placebo pills. Tried to convince my grandma to stop buying the stuff but i think all i managed to do was make her mad at me :(