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This is a fresh one from June 2023. Today i posted the shot from the same spot from 2016. Back then i shot it just because i found it visually interesting. But the recent shot demonstrates the absence of McD logo (gone from Russia) and the brick wall painted in the colours of Russian flag. Quite a difference, huh?
'creative class or fifth column' (about the core of anti-Putin protesters)
'home guards or separatists' (about the combatants of Donbass)
radio station ad
The last moths photographed before breakfast that morning.
I think this may possibly be a metalmark moth and would appreciate any help with ID or even just correcting my thoughts.
3 more moths seen in the lounge area soon after dawn on that morning.
This one looks quite interesting to me and is different to most.
left one promotes "european way" for russia vote, right one promotes humanitarian aid fundraising for donbass. 2014.
"By one string from everyone - a rope for Bandera". 'The Other Russia''s nationalists asking for money and/or equipment on their fight with ukrainian nationalists and Kiev military forces for the 'freedom' of Donbass. (The letters of gratitude with the stamps are from the so called "Lugansk People's Republic" head Plotnitsky)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Limonov
In the 'normal' life they are the Putin's enemies, a lot of those folks passed through the jail, including their leader.They are under strong pressure of multiple security services and from my own experience i saw them trying to hide their faces when i tried to do the photo of some of them during the anti-Putin protests in early 10's. But for that short period of time in 2014 (i'd say for about a half of the year) they felt themselves on the same side with Putin. They dreamed about 'Novorossiya' and hoped on Putin's millitary support after their intervention in eastern Ukraine. Means official 'peace-making' millitary operation like in Georgia 2008 and acknowledgment of independence of that 'Novorossiya'. Surely it wasn't in Putin's plans. He's a cruel, cunning and tough guy but not an idiot and maniac like they are.
So the so called 'russian spring' (started in Crimea) ended somewhere in the autumn of 2014, when after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_Protocol there were no talks about big 'Novorossiya' but only about some parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Russian nationalists felt themselves betrayed and started to hate Putin again, "hey, Vlad, what for we were dying?".
Some people may be surprised i say this but in my opinion russian and ukrainian regimes have many similarities. In both states the real power is the power of 'money', corporative state in Russia and oligarhic state in Ukraine. 'Money' use those nationalists when they need it, and then try to distance with them after their dirty job is done.
p.s. note the moneybox is empty in the end of the working day...i was walking around for about 10-15 minutes and saw only one guy who came closer and asked something.
'in or on'
It's about Ukraine. In Russian language exists a traditional usage of a preposition "on" to Ukraine, while the preposition "in" should be used when we speak about the country.
The thing is: since the times when that word (Ukraine) started to be used it meant the territory, not a country (literally it means "borderland"). And we can't say "in territory" but "on territory". Only after the February Revolution of 1917 the loosely assembled Rada in Kiev proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic. Very soon after the October Revolution of 1917 (the Bolshevist one) that attempt failed. Then Ukraine became a Soviet Republic, which status didn't suppose the political independece. So it was still okay to say "on Ukraine".
In 1991 USSR was dismissed and Ukraine became an independent state but since then i haven't heard it was a problem if someone was still saying "on". Only after the so called "Euro-maidan revolution" of 2013 and everything what followed it that tiny linguistical nuance got a strong political meaning: if you say "on Ukraine" - you're against ukrainian independence etc.
p.s. In Poland as well: "w Ukrainie czy na Ukrainie? "