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Eighty lashes of the whip for alcohol. Amputation for theft. Crucifiction for robbery. These are only a few of the draconian punishments employed by the Islamic State, according to documents and the testimony of witnesses obtained by SPIEGEL.
A bricklayer got a $60 a month raise by trading his construction tools for a Kalashnikov and becoming a soldier for the Islamic State. Subsidies and other benefits appear to be part of the holy war's allure for some.
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski believes the West should stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. "We should make it more costly for the Russians to use force," he tells SPIEGEL ONLINE in an interview.
The Baltic states view themselves as being at the front lines in a new East-West conflict. But even with large Russian minority populations, its difficult to envision a Ukraine-style conflict taking shape in Lithania, Latvia or Estonia.Стенли Маккристал – генерал и писатель by golosamerikius
Бывший командующий контингентом США в Афганистане представил новую книгу
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Russia says Kiev's refusal to negotiate with rebels 'alarming'
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Патрушев: Запад использует санкции для смены власти в стране
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Kremlin Censorship Means Russians Increasingly Can’t Talk about Their Country’s Problems, ‘Vedomosti’ Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, July 4 – The increasingly tight censorship of the Russian media, the editors of “Vedomosti” say, “does not dictate so much what one can say as what one cannot” and that in turn sets in train self-censorship, which in the case of Russia means that domestic problems cannot be discussed and the country itself has become for Russians “a blind spot.”
In an article in yesterday’s issue identified as “from the editors,” Maksim Trudolyubov and Nikolay Epple discuss the dangerous forms this is taking and how it is affecting Russians and thus Russia and its relations with others (vedomosti.ru/opinion/articles/2015/07/03/599078-rossiiskoe-obschestvo-ne-vidit-sebya).
They begin by noting that on February 13, the Russian government agency responsible for supervising the press published “a demand that the media report organizations listed in the ‘extremist’ list of the justice ministry exclusively ‘in a negative key,’ using the terms ‘radical,’ ‘extremist,’ and ‘nationalist.’”
The next day, Trudolyubov and Epple continue, the press agency removed the term “’negative key’” although the order to note that these organizations had been “’prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation’” remained in force. They argue that “the initial formulation well describes the function of ‘undesirable’ themes in state media and the public space.”
That is because censorship in its current Russian form works “like a theater spotlight,” highlighting problems usually abroad and thus putting in the shadows problems at home, the “Vedomosti” editors say.
“It is possible to discuss marriages between people of the same gender, but only ‘in a negative key,’ lest you fall under the provisions of the law banning the propaganda of homosexuality.” Psychologists say this lead to “an increase in pressure on homosexual young people and a growth in the number of suicides” among them.
“But in the [Russian] media, this problem does not exist.” At the same time, however, “it is a rare talk show on federal channels which doesn’t feature talk about ‘gayeurope.’”
Likewise, “it is possible to discuss the theme of federalization, but only as applied to Ukraine, Scotland or Catalonia. Meanwhile, a single reference about the march for the federalization of Siberia, among the demands of which there was nothing unconstitutional, turned out to be sufficient to block the sources” which reported it.
And this ban is in effect “despite the fact that regionalist experts have said for a long time that a wise redistribution of power and money between the center and the regions is the only way out of the dead end into which the supercentralizaiton of administration and the distribution of funds has driven the country.”
These are easy calls, but “there are other more complicated cases,” the writers say. One can discuss as long as one condemns the recruitment of people for ISIS or for pro-Kyiv groups in Russia, but little or nothing is said about the recruitment of people or the collection of money for those volunteering to go fight for the pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine.
Psychologists call this “projection, a defense mechanism in which one ascribes ones own problems to someone or something else,” Trudolyubov and Epple say. They cite the conclusions of sociologist Boris Dubin that this mechanism allows Russians to displace their problems onto others while ignoring what is happening in their own country.
What is striking and disturbing, the “Vedomosti” editors say, is that this all-too-human tendency has the force of law in present-day Russia.
And this has the following consequence: “there is no domestic policy in Russia: to speak about oneself in Russia is not acceptable or is prohibited. On the other hand, there are problems in the US, ‘gayeurope,’ and of course in Ukraine. One can always talks about one’s dissatisfaction” with conditions – but only elsewhere and not in Russia itself.
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‘Khokhol’ Offensive to Ukrainians and Should Not Be Used in Public, Moscow Scholar Saysby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, July 4 – The word “khokhol” must not be used “in official or public speech,” Aleksandra Olkhovskaya of Moscow’s Pushkin Russian Language Institute says, because it denigrates those to whom it is applied and thus is offensive. It can only be used, she says, when those employing it know those with whom they are speaking.
Olkhovskaya says that “the etymology of the word ‘khokhol’ is connected with the fact that among the Little Russians there was a widespread habit of cutting hair so that the head was shave and there remained only a strand of hair, that is, a forelock.” Consequently, initially at any rate, the word was not a denigrating one (rusnovosti.ru/posts/378659).
There is additional evidence for this: such a hairstyle was an indication of membership in the elite and the name was applied to numerous places in Russia, such as Khokhlovka and Khokhlovsky ruchey. “These toponyms suggest that Little Russians settled in these locations,” she adds, oblivious to the fact that the use of “Little Russians” is offensive to Ukrainians.
But if the word initially did not have any negative connotation, that is no longer the case, Olkhovskaya says. She says she recently conducted a survey of Russian speakers and found that “young people consider the word ‘Khokhol’ carries with it a clearly negative assessment” and that they “would never use it” for Ukrainians they feel close to.
Older Russians in contrast, she continues, “consider that the word ‘Khokhol’ is simply a conversations word and can be used in communications with relatives and friends.”
This issue periodically surfaces in Russia. It is now the subject of discussion because Facebook took down the account of Eduard Bagirov, a Russian who used the term “khokhol,” an action that led Maksim Ksenzov, the head of the Russian Internet regulator to ask the service why.Facebook responded that the use of the word “violates the rules of the community.”
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Vladimir Putin's Independence Day greeting calls for US-Russia dialogue
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On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its 2015 National Military Strategy, a 24-page blueprint for ruling the world through military force. While the language in the report is subtler and less incendiary than similar documents in the past, the determination to…
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The International Atomic Energy Agency's top inspector said Saturday that a report detailing Iran's nuclear program could be ready by the end of the year if a deal is struck between Iran and world powers. Analysts say his recent visit to Tehran could be a key factor in reaching a deal, and later being able to successfully implement that agreement. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports.
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Teenage boys appear to shoot dead 25 men at Unesco world heritage site, in footage linked to Islamic State accounts
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The investigation examined the tense moments after a Taliban bomb ripped through a heavily armored convoy of American troops traveling down a busy street in Kabul.
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