Russian Nut Case of The Day !!

[JayH]

There are so many ridiculous stories and ideas coming out of Russia on a daily basis I thought they deserved their own thread--it will save polluting  the forum generally !
Whether it is the just plain ridiculous or lying-post away.

Feel free to post your contenders daily!!

I thought of this after reading this--
Drive from Europe to the U.S.? Russia proposes world's greatest superhighway
http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=19257.msg399394#new
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/travel/trans-siberian-road/


Then today---my nomination--
Russian Tycoon Polonsky Wants $1 Billion From 20th Century Fox for Resemblance to Villain
Russian tycoon Sergei Polonsky, famous for his checkered past, intends to sue U.S. filmmaker 20th Century Fox for $1 billion because a new movie's villain bears a suspicious resemblance to him, business radio BFM reported Thursday.

The Russian-language movie, "Neulovimiye" ("Elusive"), released in theaters this week, tells the story of a rich and callous businessman named Sergei Polyansky who flees the scene after hitting a young woman with his car on a Moscow street.

In addition to the similarity of their full names, Polonsky and Polyansky share certain physical attributes, with the film villain sporting the real-life businessman's distinctive shock of curly brown hair.

"We are preparing a claim against 20th Century Fox in America. We already have a lawyer working on it," Polonsky told BFM. "I won't comment on the grounds for the lawsuit, but we are preparing a claim for $1 billion."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-tycoon-polonsky-wants-1-billion-from-20th-century-fox-for-resemblance-to-villain/518106.html

[alex330]

I was thinking it might be Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov from Chechnya. Hasn't anybody told him half our military is currently Mexican and we already supply Mexico with arms?

"The Chechen parliament have threatened to send weapons to Mexico in retaliation to the U.S. Congress calling for defensive lethal aid to be sent to Ukraine."

http://www.newsweek.com/chechnya-threatens-arm-mexico-if-us-sends-weapons-ukraine-316959

[JayH]

I was thinking it might be Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov from Chechnya. Hasn't anybody told him half our military is currently Mexican and we already supply Mexico with arms?

"The Chechen parliament have threatened to send weapons to Mexico in retaliation to the U.S. Congress calling for defensive lethal aid to be sent to Ukraine."

http://www.newsweek.com/chechnya-threatens-arm-mexico-if-us-sends-weapons-ukraine-316959

Funny you mention that--I was going to give him an honorouble mention !! Like there are no guns in Mexico !!
Chechnya Threatens to Send Weapons to Mexico If U.S. Arms Ukraine

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/chechnya-threatens-to-send-weapons-to-mexico-if-us-arms-ukraine/518064.html

[JayH]

There seems no bounds to the ridiculous attempts to make lies stick !!

The Dumbest Pro-Russia Hoax on the Internet

David L. Stern is a freelance writer based in Kiev, Ukraine. He’s also, if you believe several Russian media outlets, a covert CIA agent who helped orchestrate a conspiracy to shoot down an airplane and blame Russia. What a busy fellow!

The accusation is a whopper: When Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 went down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, it was shot down by the CIA and Ukrainian rebels in a scheming partnership to make Russia look evil—nevermind that investigators have concluded that the plane was shot down from territory held by pro-Russian rebels.

Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda made a nifty captioned YouTube rip of the audio—The collapse of the “Boeing”. Recordings of conversations the two CIA agents [Exclusive]—and identified Stern along with an American consultant named David Hamilton as two nefarious secret agents casually preparing to murder innocent commercial airline passengers as part of a violence-addled smear campaign against Kremlin supporters:


The main problem with the audio: It sounds like two Russian dudes signed up for Espionage Improv 101 but got a little drunk beforehand. As Foreign Policy’s Reid Standish points out, the accents here are absurdly bad, as one of the men starts out with a stilted British accent, like Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly except, you know, a non-fictional propagandist attempting to ignite conspiracy theorizing. As for the phrasing:

But the most glaring hole is in the conversation itself. The men do not talk with each other like native English speakers and use turns of phrase that sound as if their dialogue was translated to English from Russian via Google Translate. Before signing off, the two say “Luck!” to each other, a common farewell in Russian.
So where did the sloppy hoax come from? The accusations seem to spring from a press release published on obscure British PR clearinghouse pressrelease.co.uk. The release, written by someone identified as “Columnist Caleb Gilbert,” names American freelance journalist David L. Stern as a secret CIA operative and transcribes conversations Stern allegedly had about the downing of MH17. The release provides a link to audio supposedly representing a bugged 7-minute conversation between Stern and someone else.

But the transcript and audio didn’t stay obscure. As the New York Times reports, they were quickly picked up by prominent (state-owned) Russian media:

The audio, and a poorly made transcript, remained mostly unnoticed until the end of last month when it was published on a Russian news site owned by the nation’s Ministry of Defense just as Russia used its veto at the United Nations Security Council to block an international tribunal to investigate the downing of the plane.
This may be the most embarrassing thing pro-Russia supporters have done to blame the US and Ukraine for MH17, but it’s not the only bluff. Russia is suspected of editing Wikipedia to back up another Russia-absolving MH17 theory: that a Ukrainian fighter plane shot down the passenger aircraft.

Maybe next time someone will hire a voice coach.


http://gizmodo.com/the-dumbest-pro-russia-hoax-on-the-internet-1724629651?fb_action_ids=1613534988934713&fb_action_types=og.likes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=4BhJifVhqFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=4BhJifVhqFU

[JayH]

I found the link that explains the previous 90% popularity rating of Putin !!!  This explains  so much!!
"Maybe that’s the reason that Russia has suffered two catastrophic national collapses in the past 100 years alone, and is hard at work right now on making it a hat trick."


Kremlin says 90% of Russians are Idiots

As you well know, dear reader, we are loathe to agree with a single word uttered by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. But when one of Russia’s leading “educators,” Leonid Poliakov, a dean of history at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, tell us that 90% of Russians are idiots, we have to grudgingly make room for the possiblity that he could be right.

http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/editorial-kremlin-says-90-of-russians-are-idiots/

[BC]

JayH,

You really sound like the kinda guy that buys National Enquirer when checking out at your local grocery store.

Just had to say it..

[cc3]

I found the link that explains the previous 90% popularity rating of Putin !!!  This explains  so much!!
"Maybe that’s the reason that Russia has suffered two catastrophic national collapses in the past 100 years alone, and is hard at work right now on making it a hat trick."


Kremlin says 90% of Russians are Idiots

As you well know, dear reader, we are loathe to agree with a single word uttered by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. But when one of Russia’s leading “educators,” Leonid Poliakov, a dean of history at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, tell us that 90% of Russians are idiots, we have to grudgingly make room for the possiblity that he could be right.

http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/editorial-kremlin-says-90-of-russians-are-idiots/

You are posting a link to an article from seven years ago. Please, JayH, exhibit some sense of timeliness and proportionality in your numerous posts and links to various articles! Don't waste our time!

[BC]

You are posting a link to an article from seven years ago. Please, JayH, exhibit some sense of timeliness and proportionality in your numerous posts and links to various articles! Don't waste our time!

Nice example cc3!  Whatever 'floats your boat' is only a google away.. those that do so should use the tools available to restrict or filter their searches to timely material.

[Muzh]

The man is relentless.


Jay, can you have a discussion without crowding the damn forum with your cut-and-paste followed by links?


For heavens sake, get a life!!

[LiveFromUkraine]

How dare you!  If it wasn't for Jay you all would be ignorant fools. 

[Muzh]

LMFAO


How true! This is his quest.

[JayH]

If the cap fits-wear it.
Pretty clear it fits a few here.

[LAman]

How dare you!  If it wasn't for Jay you all would be ignorant fools. 

Don't know....but I'm kinda leaning toward being an ignorant fool!!

[JayH]

Potential member of Duma going about his daily business !! 

The drunken driver turned out to be a member of United Russia Alexei Vasilievich Bolshedanov.

[Larry1]

Member of Rada going about his daily business !! 

The drunken driver turned out to be a member of United Russia Alexei Vasilievich Bolshedanov.

Wouldn't he be a member of the Duma?

[JayH]

Da-thx -corrected

[msmobyone]

He's not a Duma representative, even ... He is a member of United Russia

[LAman]

You all know who gets my vote!!!! Need I say any names.......

Are we soon to get the Ivan the Terrible links?????

[JayH]

Good to see you are intent on proving it is not just a few Brits here who are morons