More Bad News for Russia

[Doll]

Then take it up with the BBC.. They recently hired some Russians reporters fleeing the food shortages in a collapsing economy that were highly trained at Pravda, RT ect. 

What does BBC have to do with this law?
You want translation? Google 

[Gator]

Doll, my Russian is horrible yet what I read says menopausal women are not allowed to drive.  True?      (American humor, silly or stupid)

[Doll]

Doll, my Russian is horrible yet what I read says menopausal women are not allowed to drive.  True?      (American humor, silly or stupid)

Stupid

[bagalia]

I believe that the reference is within #5.

5. Расстройства личности и поведения в зрелом возрасте
F60 - F69

If you research it further you will find that F60-69 includes cross dressing and other sexual identity disorders. I know nothing of the link I will provide here but perhaps this (Russian) webpage will help you. Just scroll down to F61-65 about 3/4 down the page where these disorders are listed in more detail.

http://pryazka.narod.ru/lsd_10.html

The real question is will these conditions will be enforced within the law?

As it is, by law they can be enforced and listening to Putin you might get the feeling that he would prefer a Stalin-like solution to the situation with this class of people but would he buck the international outrage? Maybe and maybe not. Personally, I doubt it. There are enough other routes to take care of the problem.

[AC]

If this prediction is true then Putin and his cronies are really focked.  Oil set to hit $35 per barrel by this summer or sooner.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/inside-the-ticker/why-oil-prices-are-headed-below-dollar35-a-barrel/ar-AA7XI0p?ocid=AARDHP

[sleepycat]

If things get desperate enough, Putler can always turn to selling off chunks of Siberia or the Far East to the Chinese to raise cash to prop up his regime...

[JayH]

More confirmation of the reversal of the Russian economy--

Fitch downgraded Russia's credit rating to "junk" level

Rating agency Fitch downgraded the credit rating of Russia from BBB to BBB- with a negative outlook.

Rating BBB- already perceived by investors as "junk", ie extremely unreliable and dangerous to invest, according to RBC-Ukraine with reference to the press service of the agency.
http://nvua.net/business/economics/fitch-ponizilo-kreditnyy-reyting-rossii-do-musornogo-urovnya-28811.html
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[lordtiberius]

If things get desperate enough, Putler can always turn to selling off chunks of Siberia or the Far East to the Chinese to raise cash to prop up his regime...

Do you really believe that?

[AC]

If things get desperate enough, Putler can always turn to selling off chunks of Siberia or the Far East to the Chinese to raise cash to prop up his regime...

Maybe he will sell the former E. Prussia back to the Germans.  Better yet sell it to the Swiss -- they have always been a neutral nation!

[lordtiberius]

There is no evidence to support this line of thinking.

[Doll]

If things get desperate enough, Putin can always turn to selling off chunks of Siberia or the Far East to the Chinese to raise cash to prop up his regime...

OMG! 

[sleepycat]

Is not like there is no precedent of Russia selling off territories when they are short of money...


Does Alaska ring a bell?

 

[Doll]

Is not like there is no precedent of Russia selling off territories when they are short of money...


Does Alaska ring a bell?

 

Instead of rolling on the floor you'd better read something about the reasons why Russia sold Alaska.

[sleepycat]

Instead of rolling on the floor you'd better read something about the reasons why Russia sold Alaska.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
"Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without compensation in some future conflict, especially to the British, whom they had fought in the Crimean War (1853–1856)."

What is the usual reason someone sell off assets?
Because they need the money.

Or maybe you can give me a link to a Kremlin history revisionist website where it will say the sale of Alaska by Russia was some brilliant strategic masterplan. 

If that sale price of 7 million dollars isn't the bargain of the millennium then I don't know what is.
Probably in Alaska an area of just 50km alone contains enough oil and minerals to be easily worth more than that 7 million sale price adjusted to present value.

[AC]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
"Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing Russian America without compensation in some future conflict, especially to the British, whom they had fought in the Crimean War (1853–1856)."

What is the usual reason someone sell off assets?
Because they need the money.

Or maybe you can give me a link to a Kremlin history revisionist website where it will say the sale of Alaska by Russia was some brilliant strategic masterplan. 

If that sale price of 7 million dollars isn't the bargain of the millennium then I don't know what is.
Probably in Alaska an area of just 50km alone contains enough oil and minerals to be easily worth more than that 7 million sale price adjusted to present value.

I'm certainly happy about it.  AkMike is probably ecstatic about it since he's from Alaska.  The Canadians are probably happy they don't have a bunch of poor drunk Russians crossing their border looking for work like the problem we have in the south.  All in all a great deal! 

 

[mendeleyev]

Instead of rolling on the floor you'd better read something about the reasons why Russia sold Alaska.

Doll, Since last year RBTH has been part of the Kremlin owned "Russia Today" enterprise, managed directly by Российская газета. Perhaps you would like the Kremlin's take on Russia's sale to Alaska.

http://rbth.com/arts/2014/04/20/why_did_russia_sell_alaska_to_the_united_states_36061.html

[Doll]

I see now (about Alaska)
Putin will not do anything like this, this is for sure.

[lordtiberius]

Doll is right.  Russia will not sell Siberia.

[AC]

Doll, Since last year RBTH has been part of the Kremlin owned "Russia Today" enterprise, managed directly by Российская газета. Perhaps you would like the Kremlin's take on Russia's sale to Alaska.

http://rbth.com/arts/2014/04/20/why_did_russia_sell_alaska_to_the_united_states_36061.html

What a surprise.  The Russians took a profitable area and turned it into a financial drain through corruption and misappropriation of natural resources.  The Crimean war was a convenient excuse to unload it.  The corrupt naval officers would have run it into the ground either way.

[AkMike]

I see now (about Alaska)
Putin will not do anything like this, this is for sure.

 It's ironic that Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna said the same thing about the sale of Alaska. 

[AC]

Is it the end of Putin's Novorossia fantasy?  It seems that Russian special forces have been either eliminating certain separatists (Batman) or forcing them to surrender.  This makes one wonder if the Russians are cleaning it up before notifying Ukraine that they are withdrawing, or simply putting the entire area firmly under Russian control prior to a complete invasion.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/11/is-this-the-end-of-putin-s-new-russia-fantasy.html

[lordtiberius]

NoviRossiya militias are planning a right wing coup. 

[sleepycat]

Foregone conclusion that Russian bonds  to be downgraded to junk status...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-losses-loom-russian-bonds-060051485.html;_ylt=AwrBEiF1ZLNUwnoAmwzQtDMD

How is the midget president going to spin this great piece of news?
Kick all the international rating agencies out of the country, create his own Russian credit rating agency to give the country a AAA+ rating?

[JayH]

 Lower again and falling everyday-- any predictions?Anyone here stupid enough to be buying rubble?Surely some of you russian believe anything Putin says brigade   are filling your coffers with rubble!!
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Oil  @ 47.2  and dropping !!   Russian strategy was to up production to try and equal the same $ income--  zero chance of achieving that and  reserves will be being eaten now at alarming rate.

[sleepycat]

In a couple of month's time that mongoloid president Putin may wish the rubble is only 63 to the dollar and not something much much worst...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-12/top-russian-ruble-forecaster-sees-fresh-run-at-record-low.html?cmpid=yhoo