Elerond

Yes natural gas from Russia

It is but it means that power plant will be down several days and you need alternate sources to replace it, which may cause issues when you have multiple nuclear plants going offline same time during energy crisis. And things are made more difficult by fact that original plan was not continue use these plant, so there is not fuel in storage for them and some of needed maintenance breaks have been skipped because they were needed in original plan.

Only problem with those three has been that they are filled with end of life uranium rods (uranium is reprocessed to max), so they need process new uranium rods for all of them and they all need be shutdown for fuel change in short time frame and it is possible that all three need to be offline same time. Reactivating already closed nuclear plants would be much bigger project.

India just buys Russian oil and sells it to west and Greece is so nice that they help them to hide origin of the oil when Greece tankers carry the oil. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-india-violating-the-eu-oil-embargo/a-62291074 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/greece-emerging-new-hub-russian-ship-to-ship-fuel-oil-exports-data-shows-2022-05-19/ As there is no sanctions against Russian oil in the EU, there is not illegal in what they are doing, but when energy companies in EU say that they have stopped using Russian oil they probably don't tell truth as most of them buy oil from Greece. Strangest thing is that Russia is make less money from oil than before as they sell it to India with massive discount, and also India don't seem to make much profit of the arrangement. Meaning that it looks like that EU's energy companies are the party that seems to make most of the profit, because market price of the oil is so high, as they seem to buy oil cheaper than before Ukraine crisis, but sell fuel in record high price because of oil's market price.

There has been issues where some countries have had problems to pay Russia, because banks have refused to do transactions in fear of breaking sanctions, but those issues have not been concern of US companies.

There is no block for exporting Russian grain and fertilizers. Russia is blocked exporting grain and fertilizers they have taken from Ukraine. Russia has self blocked its exports because they feel they aren't treated fairly. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-04/card/russian-ministry-recommends-suspending-fertilizer-exports-8gJNAaRR7PBi6HvV4T3o So US farmers haven't been able to buy fertilizers from Russia even though there is no import duties, because Russia doesn't sell fertilizers. Media seem to be very lazy when it comes to details why these negotiations happen.

Yes, it take only 2h to go from Helsinki to Tallinn with ship and it cost 20-40€.

Tallinn's Old Town is not only medieval looking it is medieval. It is part of Tallinn that existed already during Hanseatic League era in 1400s It is common that Estonians speak English. Estonia is part of EU's eastern block, so they will have different views of things than western European countries. Although it is probably most western of east block countries. Their education system is decent in western standards. There is divide between Estonian speaking population and Russian speaking population and current world situation probably has not made things better. Taxation in Estonia favors rich. Estonia's consumer price increase is highest in EU, which is important factor to take account if you want to do business there. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_manr/default/table?lang=en current situation has not made things easier

Christian

They live with their parents and it is told that they have not been touched by man aka virgin. Meaning that they have not yet reached marriage age in culture where it is normal to marry daughters away long before they reach age 18.

Have you listened Evangelical Christian sermons? They seem to have forgotten why they were called Evangelical in first place. It is modern Christian sects that have twisted Sodom and Gomorrah and many other stories in bible as political messages

I am not sure, Christian seem to love point story of Sodom and Gomorrah as their example of what happens if you don't follow Christian way of sex live. Story told by person who offered his (underage) daughters to be raped by his neighbors in order them not to question his guest and then same poor fellow was so poorly after disaster in his home town that he had sex with both of his (underage) daughters so often that they become pregnant and he tells how it was all the daughters fault. And we should learn from this story that the narrator was holy man worth of saving where all the other people in Sodom and Gomorrah where sinful and deserved to die.

They don't know so they need to prevent all pregnant women travel over state lines

Except that supreme court decided that states can make voting laws that majorly effect negatively minorities ability to vote

Yeah I actually read German government report. Like in that politico article mentions EU has already imported more gas from Russia this year than they have budgeted for entire year. Norway has increased amount of gad they export. Meaning that Germany and Europe aren't running out of gas this year, but fear is how next year would look like. Even then it is gas price hike that they fear more than lack ofgas

Germany's gas storages are in half capacity currently, so even if they lose all gas imports now they still have gas until November (when they start to need gas for heating). And during summer month they get more gas from Norway than they use (as they import from Norway 75 TWh worth of gas in month and use 45 TWh). EDIT: Germany's energy crisis is mainly caused by fact that Germany refuses to declare energy emergency that would allow energy companies to break their long time contracts, which currently forces them to sell gas in massive loss, which has caused that they try avoid selling gas as much as they can.

They don't. There maybe million that are willing to fight and there maybe some sort weapon for all of them, but they don't have million trained troops. Many of their troops that have fought in eastern line against Russian main assault have less than two weeks of training and inadequate equipment. Ukraine does not currently have enough trained troops for effective counter offensive, at least not if Russia is able to form defensive lines.

Have you opened twitter lately? Because that isn't true in anyway. In case of Musk, it seem that he has multiple time breached his contract with twitter and according to Musk breaching contracts is one of the worst offence people can do. Although I think for him this and his political tweets lately have just been form of marketing as he is building his image as person who stands against leftist, so that people who have vowed that they will never buy electric car and see fossil fuels as way of future are now switching their cars to Tesla in order to own liberals. I mean conservatives are one of the biggest untapped market for electric cars in USA and Musk seems that found way to get millions of them buy Tesla as their next car.

It depends on what is good. 500€ in month and trying to buy 300€ Nikes is not equation that seem good for your basic Russian. But oil oligarchs probably are just angry because they can't go their favorite holiday locations and buying their favorite luxury products is much more difficult, but economically they aren't hurting.

Today Erdogan told that Finland and Sweden needs to change their laws and extradite at least 73 "terrorists"

Now it is 73 Although Turkey has not yet send single extradition request, but they already announced that they will not ratify memberships until those 73 people which they have requested have been extradited and Finland and Sweden have changed their laws about terrorism to contain unspecified things

Just some hours before Russia started their invasion, you thought that Russia recognised Lugansk and Donetsk in order to have leverage in negotiations but as we saw it was Russian way to get casus belli their invasion

Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership isn't yet certain. Turkey only dropped its opposition to start membership negotiations. There is still lot of opportunities for milking more stuff and delay the process

I would point out that Zora claimed until last day that Russia will not invade Ukraine and there is no reason for them doing so. So I would not sigh for relief

Big sunk of immigrants in Russia are ethnic Russians that have moved to Russia after fall of USSR from countries that gained their independence