As songbird pointed out, he did paint pretty well by age 15.

Of course, Piсasso knew the technique of painting. But in order to create something great, in addition to technology, you also need talent – but Picasso did not have talent. He was an ordinary child prodigy who learned very early to create very ordinary paintings – and this was probably his limit. But Picasso succeeded as a “modern artist” – that is, the world-famous bubble with emptiness, which creates a cryptocurrency for tikons. Picasso’s paintings have as much artistic talent as Bitcoin
The “salon” painters, like Alma-Tadema or Semiradsky, who were spat upon by criticism, as artists surpassed Picasso absolutely

Probably there are many books written on this topic.

Art should reach the viewer’s heart by itself and not through books. To draw bulls and horses (as an artist), you need to have something that Pixasso did not have – the talent of an artist. Scandals, radical leftist views, etc. cannot replace talent

Soviet-era physicians were not only far more competent than modern ones

There is absolutely no evidence for this claim

but also much better read

Is that why there are many anti-vaxxers among them?

So in addition to studying biology and physics on a higher level, they also read Tolstoy

Not in addition, but instead

Because success isn’t judged by economic, but cultural criteria.

When people in a pandemic do not want to be vaccinated, because instead of biology they studied Leo tolstoy: is this a success?

whose resources of their country more often stolen by a narrow elite, than re-invested into improving their future.

It makes sense to compare Kazakhstan’s elites with what kind of elite Kazakhstan could potentially have at all.Undoubtedly, the elites work better in the elf kingdom, but if compared with other Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan has a very decent management

Of course, whether their protests would improve anything or not (probably not), all sympathies for the working class

This “working class” is the mambets, that is, the lumpens – a complete analogue of the American looters. When “protests” turn into general looting, it is better to exterminate such protesters (who rob hospitals in search of drugs) because this is human filth

I know lots of educated Russian people over 45 (perhaps the cutoff is 48 or so) and they are as well-read as he is (and far more than I, raised in the USA, am). I’m not sure why you found him to be more well-read than typical educated Russians his age. Perhaps you don’t spend much time with educated older Russians.

There is absolutely nothing good about it. All this is a bad parody of the officials of old China, when a person is evaluated not by his professional qualities, but by knowledge of the “classics”. Here, too, a for example doctor among the Russian “intelligentsia” is evaluated by how well he knows Chekhov and Pasternak, but how many patients will leave after treatment to the morgue is the tenth thing in comparison with Chekhov

All this led to an ugly distortion in education, the appearance of a large number of parasites engaged in “Russian language and literature”, etc., etc.

Both were talented ambitious people, ready to achieve their goals by any means. It is possible that Caesar was not capable of treason, unlike Alcibiades, but nevertheless they had a certain psychological similarity

If he had been an “unprincipled ambitious man”, wouldn’t it have made more sense to stay in Rome?

To raise an uprising to create your own kingdom, instead of the careless life of a Roman servant, is an absolutely logical course of action for an ancient ambitious man like Alcibiades or the same Caesar. It is quite possible that Arminius was of the same material

Arminius (Hermann), a true embodiment of the ancient hero Sigurd,

As far as I know, philologists claim that “Arminius” could not be a distortion of the name Herman (i.e. Arminius was not called Herman – his Germanic name is unknown). To assert (based on the presence of some songs about Arminius mentioned by Tacitus) that Arminius is Sigurd’s prototype is a very dubious assumption

Obviously very freedom loving, since he was willing to give up his Roman military career to protect his people.

These people eventually killed Arminius out of love for freedom, as Arminius sought to restrict this very freedom in favor of his own power.
We will never know Arminius’ motives – it could equally well have been a “patriot” dreaming of freedom from the Romans, or an unprincipled ambitious man who believed that it was better to be first in the village than second in Rome.

In eastern Europe …. pre-agricultural tribal elders (boyars).

?????
Agriculture in eastern Europe has dominated over any other types of activity for at least 5,000 years. Boyars when they appear in written sources are definitely the aristocracy of agricultural society

This is a masterwork, if you conceived this originally?

I conceived the pictures myself, at the request of my wife for a homemade calendar. On reddit, this comic has collected 6 likes – an objective assessment of my artistic abilities.
But Marc Chagall, without his bloated fame, collected even fewer likes on reddit with his pictures. But Velasquez or Rubens would easily collect tens of thousands of likes

don’t give your artistic talent for free

Well, my stupid drawings save me money – my wife gave this New Year’s card to friends, so about a thousand rubles were saved (without postcards she would have had to buy souvenirs)

I can put this in my office and tell people I made it

I don’t mind. But technically, my signature is hidden in this pictures

Either a bad photo, or Bezos is wasting his money badly. With his wealth, he could buy himself a concubine at the sight of which the men would be dumb with delight and envy, and not this lady with the face of a bitch

the great Russian painter, expressed this motif quite well in at least one of his works that I’m aware of:

Funny joke. The Jew Marc Chagall with his children’s drawings turned into a “great artist”. Then I’m probably a great artist too

Duginist world

This is a non-existent phenomenon

If you remove the national costume – an ordinary Northern European face

When you look at pre-slavic populations of Russia like Vepsy today, it’s not like we could visually distinguish them from the slavic (or slavicized) population.

At the level of individual people, it is impossible to know nationality by face. Bashir Assad’s family will easily fit into any European nation up to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, although the Asads are definitely not Europeans

But slavic tribes immigrated to Russia in the 8th-9th century.

Where native speakers of the Slavic language lived before the 6th century is a riddle of riddles (perhaps somewhere in the territory of European Russia). But in any case, they appeared on the territory of Russia earlier than the 8th century

The Substack refuses to sign me

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I think that we should try to emigrate to Karlin’s website – the “Karlin cult” should not allowed to die so prematurely.

But why should you care where you agree or disagree with this Raches who is replacing Karlin? The more important question, is whether he introduces a topic interesting, where we can feel welcome to disagree, and moderates without authoritarianism.

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He was like a 2000s internet version, of one of these aristocratic women of the 18th century, who knows how to create the hospitable salon, introduce the topic, provoke the talkative people to respond – and then he sits down relaxing drinking tea (or more appropriately with popcorn).

And the blog is obsessive about particular interests, he can use them with professional expertise to generation discussion that encompasses diverse and multinational possibilities.

He knows if posts something about his love for Indian food, it will likely result in Utu and Beckow arguing about French soup. That soon Melanf will start to post photos of the mushrooms his wife has collected. That photo of a mushroom, will trigger Aaronb’s mind to think about American forests and he will start recommending national parks to Mikel that reminded him of his youth among trees in the Basque Country. Etc

On the other hand, Karlin knows he could write about vegetarian burgers in Moscow, and Bashibuzuk’s mind (sitting in the office thousands of kilometres away in Edmonton) will be triggered about the thought of the mixed nationality Putinist hipsters that have conquered the elite streets of his native city. But after some cathartic comments expounded his anger against the multinational Putinists, the sun comes out and Bashibuzuk will start posting happy thoughts about Buddhism, which in turn will trigger the rage of AltanBakshi viewing how the white man misunderstands his religion, that invites Aaronb – and so on.

There has been immense power of almost infinite regressions and possibilities, that Karlin holds in his hands skillfully and deftly, and you could see him something drunk on anticipation of the possibilities when he phrases like e.g. “So far as I am concerned, Putin has built the perfect state.”

The central apse features a metallic relief dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, the God-Emperor of the Russians, irradiating into the infinite blue, star-studded heavens. I am told that the 3D effect was created by the application of techniques used in Buddhist stupas

The idea was of Mr. Shoigu who is a shamanic-Buddhist from Tuva, and the interior designer is also a shamanist from neighboring Buryatia, Mr. Namdakov.
https://imgpile.com/images/UNxHEP.jpg
Namdakov’s style.

Who else should design Orthodox Christian mega-temples? What are you, some kind of racist?

So. Two Mongoloid shamanists are the people behind the crypto-Mithraist military mega-temple.

Just a bunch of fellow white Orthodox Slavs doing their thing.

Mithra? Gilgamesh? Elric? Noooo. What? Noooo. Pfff, noooo.

Also, a detail I do not find completely insignificant–Adolf Hitler’s personal belongings are also on the territory of the temple.
All Christian temples need Nazi relics to generate mana.

Frankly, all this is one step away from sending expeditions to the North Pole to find Shambala and Hyperborea. Unless this is already underway.
We wuz Knyaz n sheit. Aryan astral pyramids for Christ.

Quite a “Ukrainian” article. When the authorities (instead of solving real problems) engage in “patriotic” fetishism, there is nothing good about it. Cosplay of Ukraine cannot lead to anything good. Especially disgusting is the plundering of public money for the construction of ugly cathedrals for the Byzantine sect

IMO, early Asimov is top form Asimov, with all his flaws (horrendous dialogue and characters)

Yes. And this is typical for many authors (the same Herbert, Zelazny)

I only read one by Herbert

Herbert’s books are very different in level. In the Dune series, the first book is brilliantly written, the rest are monstrous trash. So in the case of Herbert, each book should be evaluated separately, they are sooooo different

Sputnik V uses the same virus for their first dose, but Gamaleya made a terrible mistake with their second dose Ad5 vector platform, no one in Russia or Argentina so far can make it in quantity, the latter in a 6:1 ratio for their first non-test batch.
So Sputnik V is more theory than practice in terms of fighting COVID being largely unobtanium

I do not know how things are in Argentina, but in Russia you can get four doses of Sputnik without any problems, that is, two first and two second (Ad5)

Shpilkin could guess about the election results with the help of Tarot cards – the degree of” scientific ” of his work would not change from this. But the Russian authorities who have made the elections as opaque and dubious as possible are strategically doing great harm to themselves and the country

No, Asimov is absolutely great.

By what? Asimov’s “Foundation” is a pseudo-history transferred to the space of the distant future. The personages there are flat and formulaic and designed to illustrate the author’s sociological schemes. The adventures of heroes – in the style of books for middle school students (the level of Harry Potter, but on a template pseudoscientific-fantastical background). The only fresh idea is about the Jewish Freemasons who secretly rule the world with the help of telepathy and hypnosis. But the Bene Jasserit Order was invented by Herbert earlier

No, Asimov is absolutely great. I found Dune overrated IMO, worldbuilding is cool and unique but everything else seems meh, it’s the only book of Herbert’s I read.

A strange assessment. Half of the subsequent science fiction and fantasy is based on” Dune “- including” Star Wars “and”Warhammer”, which were licked from the Dune. In this regard (through their children like the mentioned Star Wars) Dune surpasses in its influence not only the sterile creation of Asimov, it far surpasses Harry Potter. The plot in Dune turns into irrational chaos after the first book (actually, only the first book should be read). But the first book is written brilliantly

It’s a shame Jodorowsky had all his ideas stolen

From what I know about the Jodorowsky dune , it’s lucky that this film was not made. This project was terrible

And even so, they’re way off anyway, with UR getting 49.8%.

It’s not about that – if you refer to VTsIOM, it’s better to give the VTsIOM forecast (41-44%), and not other figures. If we consider the VTsIOM forecast to be false , it is better not to refer to VTsIOM completely.

These data (from VTsIOM) are completely different from those that the fortune teller Shpilkin came up with. I was not interested in the question much, but I can say one thing for sure – Shpilkin’s “electoral mathematics” is such a shameful pseudoscience that a reference to this man discredits any statement

They may not have been prepared over a weekend

The Sputnik V vaccine was created (using ready-made technology) in two weeks (according to its creator)

Tellingly, VCIOM either did not do exit polls

Vtsiom stated that it would not conduct an exit poll since there is no customer
https://ria.ru/20210823/vybory-1746911605.html?in=t
“Exit poll будут, если будет заказчик, это очень дорогое удовольствие. За свой счет его проводить не можем”, – пояснил Федоров.
Впрочем, он подчеркнул, что ВЦИОМ готов провести всю необходимую работу, если заказчик все-таки появится. Время на подготовку, по его словам, еще есть.

But there is a VTsIOM forecast – United Russia has 41-44%. Use it if you consider the VTsIOM data to be reliable

A quick glance shows that VCIOM was giving UR 26-29% in the month before the elections: https://wciom.ru/ratings/reiting-politicheskikh-partii/

Adjusting for non-participants/don’t knows, that’s around mid-30%s.

Percentage amongst those who would “definitely come”? 35.2% https://wciom.ru/analytical-reviews/analiticheskii-obzor/rezultaty-vyborov-v-gosdumu-2021-prognoz-vciom

Straight from the link you gave

“На основании данных опроса аналитики ВЦИОМ подготовили прогноз результатов выборов. Согласно прогнозу, в Думу пройдут пять партий:

«Единая Россия» (42%), возможный диапазон между 41-44%;
КПРФ (19%), возможный диапазон между 18-22%;
ЛДПР (11%), возможный диапазон между 10-13%;
«Справедливая Россия — Патриоты — За правду» (8%), возможный диапазон 7-9%;
«Новые люди» (5%), возможный диапазон 4-6%.”

That is, the forecast is: “United Russia” (42%), the possible range is between 41-44%;
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (19%), possible range between 18-22%;
LDPR (11%), possible range between 10-13%;
“Fair Russia-Patriots-For the truth” (8%), possible range 7-9%;
“New people” (5%), possible range 4-6%

As usual, “real result” of United Russia would have been around 35% instead of 50% (and a simple majority instead of a Constitutional majority)

According to the results of exit polls, United Russia is gaining 42-47% of the votes. Were the exit polls (conducted by different organizations) also falsified?
https://meduza.io/news/2021/09/19/exit-poll-edinaya-rossiya-nabiraet-45-2-golosov-na-vyborah-v-gosdumu-u-kommunistov-21

Shpilkin has a very advanced method – he draws a graph of voter turnout depending on the time, then (meditating on this graph) falls into a trance, and in a trance state announces the numbers-exactly the numbers that the customer who finances Shpilkin needs

You would be surprised how passionate and sexually uninhibited the church mice in the real world can be

Well I am glad that you have such a great practical knowledge in this field

As usual, “real result” of United Russia would have been around 35%

Shpilkin is a patent crook, and his “method” is a patent scam, at the level of astrology or clairvoyance (although outwardly covered by mathematics). It is sad that you refer to such prostitutes

Here is an analysis of the Shpilkin “method”, nothing has changed since then
https://wiz-aut.livejournal.com/5934.html

The new film adaptation of “Dune” – my impressions are mixed.
The atmosphere is well conveyed, the music is excellent, the views of the planets are excellent, the cast as a whole is very accurately selected. The film follows the book with minimal deviations. In fact, the film is a classic symphony (music plays a major role in the film), where the music is illustrated by a video sequence. In this respect, the film is brilliant and full of tragic beauty

The technique is well done, the scenes with graders, ornithopters, lighters are shot very effectively

Very good Timothy Chalamet as Paul Atreides
But! If you watch the movie without reading the book, the world invented by Herbert will be undiscovered. According to Herbert, once humanity developed using computers, but then smart computers got too smart, machines rebelled against mankind, and were destroyed during the all-galactic war. Now computers (and a number of other technologies) under the strictest ban, but instead of them, special people (mentats, navigators, Gesserits) are used who, with the help of drug spice, can process huge volumes of information and, due to this, look into the future. And spice cannot be synthesized – it can only be extracted in the deserts of the planet Dune. Without spice, flights between the stars will become impossible (the routes are laid by navigators who are under the constant influence of spice) – accordingly, without spice, the entire civilization will collapse.

This moment in the film is blurred. A person who has not read the book at all will have the impression that spice is just some kind of drug playing an auxiliary role, and the whole struggle is for money from the drug trade. Mentats are extremely disappointing – ordinary intelligence officers are shown, their diabolical abilities are not revealed in any way. The Bene Gesserit, on the other hand, are shown quite well.
Harkonens good – the baron turned out to be a smart and scary creatureThe key point of Herbert’s fantasy is that force fields made soldiers invulnerable to firearms and lasers, and this is why there was a return to cold weapons and hand-to-hand combat. The exception is the desert Dunes – there, because of the worms (which feel the protective fields, and attack them), you can not use these very fields, so the local natives are armed with firearms (while civilized people have long switched to swords).

Here the military actions are the weakest moment of the film. In the film, the logic is lost – first they show how the fleeing soldiers are killed with missiles from the air, and then how they are cut down with the attackers with swords. Well, it’s absurd after all – why do you need to engage in hand-to-hand combat, if you can kill the enemy with missiles? Then, in the hands of the Fremen, a completely modern-looking firearm appears. In Herbert’s book, this was logically justified. In the film, it looks completely absurd.According to the mind, it was necessary to show the Atreides warriors walking unharmed through the explosions, since when the missiles hit directly into groups of fighters, the flashing blue cocoons of force fields protect the soldiers from the shock wave and shrapnel. Then it would be clear why such a strange situation is when the warriors of the interstellar empire are armed with swords

Well, the sword fights themselves are not impressive – there is no drive necessary for film performances. This applies both to mass scenes and to the combat exploits of individual heroes.

The Sardukars are completely disappointing – in the film they are ordinary rather sluggish soldiers.Based on the film, it is completely unclear what their infernal reputation is based on.
In the book (at the end of the first part) Paul Atreides sees the future under the influence of spice, but in the film this prophetic vision occurs in small pieces throughout the film, and this violates the logic of the work.

The riddle: why was it necessary to take the beautiful Rebecca Ferguson,
to play the role of a beautiful witch seductress Jessica, and then make a colorless church mouse with her hair tied up in a bun out of the heroine.
I wasn’t impressed with Duncan Idaho. Momoa without a beard and mustache (and with muscles hidden by armor) does not give the impression of a great warrior at allThis could have been redeemed by powerful combat scenes, but here, alas, the creators of the film failed-Idaho’s fight with the Sardukars does not catch at all.

Gurney Helleck is quite good, although he does not quite match the image from the book

Chani is a shame: the heroine of the book, who has the “face of an elf”, will be replaced by an plain girl with a wide face and a duck nose. Well, how can the Messiah be charmed by such ordinary girl?Well, if she took charisma, because she plays the same way she looks.

In general, if you have read the book, then it is definitely worth watching the film adaptation. But if you haven’t read Frank Herbert’s novel, it’s better to start with it

If the Church holidays are evenly distributed than it makes no difference if the growing season is short because under an even distribution most of the holidays will fall outside the short growing season.

And for this reason in short growing season German colonists had four times fewer holidays than Orthodox Russian peasants. In addition, the Orthodox peasant community strictly ensured that no one worked on these holidays, but everyone was drunk. The results of such “Orthodox spirituality” are known – the Russian Orthodox peasant was a beggar, a loafer and an alcoholic.

The musical tradition grew out of Church music

In Russia, no. Music (as art in general) was borrowed from Western Europe as a result of” Westernization ” in the 18th century. Therefore, where this music has roots in the church tradition, it is the church tradition of Western Christianity

The Church-less Russia of the Soviets killed Russia’s Silver Age

Ahh, that’s how it is. And in those countries where there were no Soviets, there are still composers of the level of Verdi and Saint-Saens?

Almost all Russian composers, such as Tchaikovsky, made music for the Church

Of course, many (but not all!) composers created church music, but for the most part it was work for the sake of money, and the results were not of interest (which is understandable – Orthodox music is strictly “a la capella” and therefore boring). The same Tchaikovsky was very skeptical about the church and Christianity in general, and he is appreciated all over the world not for religious music (which Tchaikovsky did not like) but for completely different works

And how many of those holidays fell during the non-summer months it times after the harvest, when work was less necessary?

Church holidays more or less evenly occurred throughout the year. Since in Russia the time suitable for agricultural works much shorter than in Europe, the guilt of the Byzantine Church is even heavier. In a short time when it was necessary to work, the churchmen forbade labor and accustomed the peasants to idleness and alcoholism.

It was well known that these idiotic holidays were one of the main obstacles to the development of the country. State Secretary Polovtsev for example said to Alexander II
“If you, Your Majesty, destroy the estates, communal land ownership and half of the holidays during your reign, you will leave behind a completely different Russia”

Dumb question, but is 51% voter turnout normal in Russia?

Yes

All Russian composers composed music for Church services

This statement is just nonsense

You’ve not looked at a liturgical calendar in a while.

https://culturolog.ru/content/view/3779/29/
“Orthodox Russian peasants actually had 71 holidays, without Sundays, much more than, for example, in the Baltic provinces, Catholics — 43, Baltic Protestants and German colonists-18, in Germany-13, in most Catholic countries — 35 (in some — in Spain and Italy — about 48), in China, Japan and other countries of East and South Asia — 35. Moreover, their number has increased in the post-reform period. Secondly, the abundance of holidays caused significant harm to the peasant economy, as it took a lot of time and money. If Orthodox Russian peasants had the same number of holidays and Sundays as Western ones, this would give production an additional 3 billion man-days a year and increase the balance of working time by almost 20%, thanks to which the peasants would receive additional income in the amount of 1870 million rubles”

nd what kind of Russia did the Bolsheviks produce? One that killed millions

Well, the Byzantine religion is the main culprit of the revolution. The church forbade peasants to work almost most of the year (religious holidays), and was the main obstacle to education. Plus, the insane approval of an unlimited birth rate, as well as the country’s involvement in wars in the interests of this sect.

Russia wouldn’t be Russia without the Orthodox Church.

It can be said with equal success that Russia would not have been Russia without the Bolshevik revolution. Because without the revolution it would be a different Russia – not the same Russia as we know it in the current reality

If religion were not Orthodoxy but Catholicism – what would have happened then? It is possible that Russia could not defend its independence from its toothy western neighbors. But if Russia could sew itself up, then development would go much faster, since the Orthodox Church at all times was a millstone on the neck of Russia

I find disgusting the attacks against the Orthodox Church wherever they come from, Tennessee, Ukraine or Russia

I can’t say anything about Tennessee, but dislike of the Orthodox Church in Russia is fully justified. The Orthodox Church has tried for centuries to use Russia for its own purposes, giving nothing in return

This Boris Vishnevsky could not lose the election because of duplicate candidates. This story became so famous that it could only bring Vishnevsky additional voices. That is, he lost the election for other reasons

but Tolstoy the preacher and Tolstoy the writer are not the same thing.

His religious and pseudo-religious ideas are embedded in his books (including his early books)

I don’t think it’s fair to label him a ‘pharisee’,

A man who taught that medicine and doctors are harmful because they distract people from God (i.e. from the teachings of Leo Tolstoy) at the end of his life decided to leave home to imitate Christ – well, like Francis of Assisi. He took a retinue with him from home including a personal doctor

Anyway, I think Chekhov remains the greatest Russian writer

I would say that the greatest Russian writers (not poets!) These are Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Solovyov and Alexey Pekhov. However, we all live in our own separate universes, each of which has its own hierarchy of art

Seriously, did this really happen?

However, this Vishnevsky himself has used dirty tricks in the past (in particular, when he was a troubadour of Chechen terrorists), so the trick is quite legitimate

What do you have against Lev?

My school years, which were spoiled by the need to read the slop that this author wrote.

Well also the fact that this man was a disgusting Pharisee pretending to be a prophet. The lot of buffoons is to entertain people, and when they try to declare themselves prophets, they should be whipped but not proclaimed as geniuses

The Russian Orthodox Church dreams of returning to the Middle Ages, and the author of shit novels Lev Tolstoy dreamed of returning to the Neolithic. It is difficult to say which of them is more disgusting and harmful.

Isn’t that how Leo Tolstoy felt?

Hardly. Leo Tolstoy was against civilization in general, and in particular against cities with museums

claim that Peter T made an anti-Jewish comment.

I don’t care about the anti – Semitic statements of this idiot, but flirting with greedy Byzantine parasites is a lifelong stigma.

Is it better to maintain the Soviet making of that church into a museum?

Without any doubt. The cathedral has never belonged to church parasites, and it should not belong to them.

An amazing company you have is participating in the elections, where everyone is disgusting. Peter Tolstoy is disgusting because he is a descendant of the famous faggot Leo Tolstoy, but he is doubly disgusting because he advocated the transfer of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to parasites from the Byzantine sect ROC

Were they taught the Ukrainian language in this school or were they not?

Well, in this style, the Ukrainian language is studied in schools in Moscow and St. Petersburg (and in St. Petersburg in the state budget school 479). Then what are your peretensions?

I found two videos in Russian, one in Ukrainian

We are looking for a video about a “Ukrainian” school in Kazakhstan in a search engine (in Ukrainian ” гімназія № 47 Астана”
), and we find a video in Russian. There are a lot of such videos (examples below), but there are none in Ukrainian (the meeting of the official delegation is a different case).

Can you explain why in the” Ukrainian ” school (in Kazakhstan) children congratulate their parents in Russian? Maybe because in this school, only a grant from Kiev is “Ukrainian”?

Who has seen the new Dune movie? I have mixed impressions

From their own site it appears that both languages are taught

“Язык обучения русский” that is, they teach in Russian (which is the native language of Ukrainians in Kazakhstan). Ukrainian goes additionally as a foreign language (most likely for the sake of subsidies from Kiev or Ottawa), but judging by the deaf silence of Yandex and Google on this topic, this training is a fiction.

Well, what is the difference with Moscow? The Ukrainian school in Moscow has at least a website in Ukrainian
http://ukrcentr.ru/RU/category/novini/ukra%D1%97nska-nedilna-shkola-imeni-pavla-popovicha/

There is also a school 479 in St. Petersburg where they teach Ukrainian (as a foreign language)

And here, students at the school speak very good Ukrainian

For the delegation that came to the school (the delegation from the Ukraine most likely)

But if we look at the information about this school, then the language in which children are taught is Russian.
https://schoolotzyv.ru/schools/15-kazahstan/254-astana/118750-shkola-gimnaziya-47

Russian language teaching is discussed in the reviews of parents (link above) about this school (which are all in Russian), but the Ukrainian language is not mentioned at all. Videos that are made not for Ukrainian delegations, but for themselves – all in Russian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yeo-aBOtyA&t=11s&ab_channel=TheMolchanovfamily%2F%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%85.
etc, etc

That is, in the” Ukrainian ” school in Astana, the language (of local Ukrainians?) Russian, and Ukrainian is taught there as a foreign language (for the sake of subsidies from Kiev, most likely). Well, is the question of Ukrainian education in Moscow closed?

Do I have access to government archive…

If there was a petition signed by several thousand residents of Moscow to create a Ukrainian school, and this petition was rejected by the authorities, then this fact would be used by Ukrainian propaganda. Well, since there is no mention of this event in the Ukrainian propaganda, it means that there was no such petition

Out of interest, I gave a request to Yandex

“Українська ШКОЛА-гімназія №47 в Астані” (Ukrainian gymnasium No. 47 in Astana – request in Ukrainian language)

All the information found about the school turned out to be exclusively in Russian. In Google, absolutely the same thing.

AP and Mr. Hack, can you explain this?

“Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, has a Ukrainian high school”
It looks that there indeed a different type of Ukrainian that lives in Russia than in Canada or Kazakhstan. I wonder why?

To be honest, I am not very interested in this, but the few official information that is available about the “Ukrainian” school in Astana is exclusively in Russian. Email address of this school [email protected] (have you considered the domain?), in the video, graduates of this school sing in Russian https://ok.ru/video/1582849133282. Official information (in Russian) “school with the study of the Ukrainian language” http://www.balazan.kz/comon/place/detail.php?e=3260 that is, this is not a school where they teach in Ukrainian, but a school where Ukrainian is studied as a foreign language. In Chicago, Ukrainian schools are also arranged this way, or are there real Ukrainian schools there?

Let me remind you that it takes about 2,000 people to produce enough kids for a school

Well, great – can you show me the petition of 2000 residents of Moscow about the organization of a Ukrainian school? If not , then what is the conversation about? The version that “Ukrainians are afraid” is, to put it mildly, ridiculous

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I strongly suspect that Ukrainians in Russia are just afraid to exhibit any signs of their native language

Funny joke. In Russia there is a whole political party Jabloko which officially refuses to recognize Crimea as Russia
https://lenta.ru/news/2021/08/17/zbloko_krym/
Ukrainians study in Russian-language schools also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Baltic states …

Out of curiosity, I read the Ukrainian officialdom. And what did I read there?

“Thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2019, the state supported 164 projects of Saturday and Sunday Ukrainian foreign schools.
However, Alla Polevaya said that today, unfortunately, (outside of Ukraine) there is not a single Ukrainian school in the full sense of the word, so that they teach not just in the Ukrainian language, but from the first to the last grade.”

https://education.24tv.ua/ru/rodnoj-jazyk-za-rubezhom-skolko-ukrainskih-shkol-novosti-ukrainy_n1427454

And what do you say about this?

Your claim that Ukrainians in Moscow don’t need or want a Ukrainian school is based on this silly article:
http://www.odnako.org/blogs/v-moskve-hoteli-otkrit-ukrainoyazichniy-klass-no-ne-sobrali-detey/
It quotes a Party of Regions pro-Russian activist

Here is the official response of the Moscow authorities, which they have repeated many times:

“there are no Ukrainian schools (five-day) in Moscow. There are Armenian ones. There are Georgian ones. There are Tatar ones. But Ukrainian ones do not exist. And the head of the Moscow Department of Education Olga Larionova even explains why. Because all schools with an ethnic component in Moscow are opened on the initiative of the diasporas. Armenians want to teach their children about Armenian culture. Georgians want it. Tatars want. And the Ukrainians don’t want to. And to all the proposals of the Department of Education, the Ukrainian diaspora replied: “We do not need a Ukrainian school.”

It is very easy to check the words of the Moscow authorities – show us any rallies in Moscow (with the participation of thousands of people) in support of Ukrainian education, petitions signed by tens of thousands of Moscow residents, etc. etc. If such rallies / petitions / … exist, then the Moscow authorities are lying.
If such rallies / petitions / … do not exist, then the Moscow authorities are telling the truth.

Nor do Russians in Ukraine, Latvia or Estonia need Russian schools.

The result of such ideas was the loss of Donbass for Ukraine (where relatively recently the majority of the population considered themselves Ukrainians). But you can, of course, continue to “play a fool” (I don’t know how to say it correctly in English) referring to the absence of Ukrainian schools in Moscow

And most of the 45,000 Ukrainians in Chicago speak English, yet they support a daily Ukrainian school.

So these are completely different Ukrainians than in Moscow or St. Petersburg. And Ukrainian / Russian or Ukrainian / English are completely different cases. the analogue of the Ukrainian school in Moscow will be a school in the Scottish Lowlanders dialect in Chicago.

A pro-Russian activis…

Show that he is wrong. Give examples of rallies / demonstrations in Moscow demanding schools in Ukrainian, petitions of Moscow residents demanding to create such a school, etc. So far, there is a reality given to us – Ukrainians in Moscow do not need Ukrainian schools (and most of them do not know Ukrainian)

Okay. It is a Sunday school

In which there is a constant lack of students, which was emphasized above

5 day a week school? На

http://www.odnako.org/blogs/v-moskve-hoteli-otkrit-ukrainoyazichniy-klass-no-ne-sobrali-detey/
“For two years in Moscow, they tried to open classes and schools for children with instruction in the Ukrainian language. They have repeatedly appealed to the Ukrainian diaspora:” Give children who would be taught in the Ukrainian language. “But the authorities failed to recruit even one Ukrainian-language class.”
This information was confirmed by the director of the Ukrainian branch of the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Kornilov. “The authorities tried … to create a state Ukrainian school in Moscow at the expense of the Moscow budget. And, you know, three or four people were recruited and then taken away, because the classes were inferior,” said Kornilov.”

There is not a single Ukrainian school in Moscow, which has officially about 150,000 Ukrainians.

Most of them speak Russian as their native language. A rough analogy – a million Irish live in New York. How many Gaelic schools (teaching in Gaelic) are there in New York?

Evidence of its existence other than a claim in a blog post?

http://ukrcentr.ru/ukra%D1%97nska-nedilna-shkola-imeni-pavla-popovicha/

The same point why some Russians want to send their kids to Russian schools in Ukraine,

Russian is spoken (as native language) by a large part of Ukraine, and the Russian language can be useful outside of Ukraine. But the Ukrainian language in Crimea is spoken only by some unique people in their family, and the Ukrainian language is useless everywhere except Ukraine (and very few people want to emigrate to Ukraine)

why Ukrainians in Moscow want to send their kids to Ukrainian schools (but are denied)

“Ukrainian school named after Pavel Popovich. It is located near the Arbatskaya metro station in the center of Moscow. Unfortunately, there is always a shortage in it – few people want to learn the Ukrainian language.”

The election in which 22% of Crimea’s population and about half (likely slight majority) of ethnic Ukrainians

With a turnout of 49%. That is, these 22% are 10% of Crimean voters. Half of those who voted were Tatars and other non-Ukrainians. But most importantly – what is the point of these Ukrainian “patriots” to teach children at school in Ukrainian, while living in Russia?

Or the poll was of questionable accuracy.

There were two surveys by GFK and Gellup (and a number of other surveys by Russian pollsters) that gave similar results. So falsification is unrealistic here.

In addition, there is a logical outflow in your reasoning – with the complete uselessness of the senselessness of teaching in the Ukrainian language in Russia, people of even the most radical pro-Ukrainian views will give their children to a Russian class or go somewhere to Lviv

Except turnout for Tatars was very low in the 2012 election – a little over a third (see the article I linked to). Furthermore Tatars were not 100% on the side of Ukrainian nationalists. So the 22% vote for Ukrainian nationalist parties in 2012 in Crimea mostly came from ethnic Ukrainians.

Well, in that case, in 2012-2014, Ukrainian nationalists lost all popularity among the Ukrainians of Crimea.

I am not sure how you can describe the current “anti rape-ugee” government in Warsaw as “pro-jihadi”.

Warsaw (along with other countries of Eastern Europe), on the orders of the United States, sold weapons to al-Qaeda militants in Syria (paid for this by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States). Of course, the United States did this in the interests of Israel. So we see a pro-jihadi and pro-jew (oh what an irony) government in Warsaw

Unless you think that Yanukovich faked the 2012 election in favor of Ukrainian nationalists – in those elections 22% of Crimeans voted for Ukrainian nationalist parties. Crimean Tatars were only 12%

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/crimean-conundrum/

it is easy to guess^ 12% (actually 15% if you count all Tatars – not only Crimean ones) can easily give 20% and 30% in elections if they have a high turnout

Anyway, I think it would be good to bring back some of these old sex-segregated customs. Perhaps, Minoan dress, at least, for good-looking women.

In the fundamental work “Crete and the Aegean World in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (III-early I millennium BC.)” Published in 2002 http://www.sno.pro1.ru/lib/andreev_ot_evrazii_k_evrope/index.htm, there is a criticism of the Minoan civilization – in Minoan Crete, women occupied an unbecoming high position in society . This of course had bad consequences as women are creatures inert and incapable of progress.

Eh, its sad that feminists don’t read such books, otherwise it would be fun

Most westerners could not tell a difference of a Tatar from a Ukie, Russian, Azerbaijani, Turk, Armenian etc. while walking down the street.

At the individual level, Tatars are difficult to distinguish from Russians, as there are many Tatars of “Slavic” appearance, and many Russians with “Tatar” appearance. Here in the photo – a girl from the Crimean Tatars, her companion is Russian

Putin intentionally decided to sell out Christianity and grovel before the German SJW Caliphate’s pro-Jihadi leader Mutti Merkel.

Ahhh that’s how it is. Well, now I know who the viceroy of Satan on earth is. But who then are the Poles – whose ties with Germany are much closer than those of Russia?

Putin did very badly by selling gas directly to Sauron (SJW Caliphate’s pro-Jihadi ) in Berlin. He had to sell gas through the intermediary of the Nazguls (SJW Caliphate’s pro-Jihadi ) in Warsaw. Or maybe Putin should have negotiated directly with Morgoth (SJW Caliphate’s pro-Jihadi ) in Washington?

Are you suggesting that all those kids going to Tatar schools are incapable of university admission?

Children who study in schools with the Tatar language will have disadvantage in comparison with children from Russian schools.

Most of the votes for the Ukrainian nationalist parties in Crimea came from Ukrainians.

There is a Gellap poll about the attitude of the Crimean population to the Crimean secession. Crimean Ukrainians and Russians almost equally supported the secession, and only the Tatars split about 50% by 50%. That is, the only group in Crimea that could support Ukrainian nationalists are the Tatars.

6.5% of Crimea’s students were studying in Ukrainian, versus 3% in Crimean Tatar.

because under Ukraine, the Ukrainian language gave access to a career and education. + children of the Ukrainian military and officials sent to Crimea

The Crimean Tatars got linguistically Russified….

Naturally. But this does not change the fact that in Crimea both Russians and Ukrainians always spoke Russian. In this respect, an even more striking example is Donbass. Before the bombing by the Kiev authorities, the majority of the population considered themselves Ukrainians, but these Ukrainians spoke Russian, and did not want to learn Ukrainian.

The intentionally offensive choice by Russian Elites to land NordStream 2 in Germany will materially worsen Polish-Russian relations.

????? WTF!?

People in Ukrainian schools would still be fluent in Russian, because Ukrainian schools would have Russian classes also

To enter the university, you need to write an essay (in Russian). Fluent Russian is not enough for this (writing in Russian without violating the existing rules is a special area of scholasticism, I could not master it for 11 years of studying at school)

Those who voted for Ukrainian nationalists in Crimea are not Ukrainians, but Tatars who had a tactical alliance with Ukrainian nationalists

There are after all Tatar, Korean, etc schools in Moscow, Tatar ones in Crimea

There are several orders of magnitude more Tatar-speaking Tatars in Crimea than there are Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians.

For Russian (and generally ex-Soviet) Koreans, the native language is Russian.

It is simply not realistic that demand in a population that in 2012 had voted about 20% for pro-Ukrainian political parties (~ 200,000 people) and had supported 6.5% enrolment in Ukrainian classes would shrink to virtually zero.

And what is surprising here? In Ukraine, the Ukrainian language opened the way to study at universities, official positions, etc.
In Russia, learning the Ukrainian language is absolutely useless, and reduces the prospects of children for a normal future. So even people with pro-Ukrainian views will send children to learn Russian.