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Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml Usually when Israel is accused of committing genocide against Palestinians it is section 3. in UN's definition, as Israel forces Palestinians to live in certain areas, which size they constantly decrease by occupying more areas themselves, they control and block trade to these areas, the control electricity, heath and other energy to these areas, which they have weaponized against Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/senate-abortion-rights-bill-vote No republican support and Manchin also voted against.

2013 even seeking membership was not in table, only free trade area like EU has with Turkey He also says that EU is willing to look compromise that works for Ukraine. Where Russia blocked Ukraine trade to Russia until Ukraine rejected association agreement, which is clearly signal that Russia had no problems with Ukraine making agreements with EU and EU being uncompromising jerks.

From full quote you see that Barroso didn't put it as them or us , or demanded that Ukraine can't be in trade union with Russia, but the agreement between Ukraine and EU needs to take account that free trade deal would be only between Ukraine and EU not with any trade partner of Ukraine "Agreements on the establishment of a deep and comprehensive free trade area between the EU and Ukraine contain obligations that need to be fulfilled. We discussed this issue with President [Viktor] Yanukovych today. Our positions were clearly defined... One country cannot at the same time be a member of a customs union and be in a deep common free-trade area with the European Union. This is not possible," Barroso said. However, he noted that there are "some pragmatic ways to address this issue." "And we have to respect the position of Ukraine," Barroso said, adding that Kyiv and Brussels have a common goal of political association and economic integration. EDIT: Also Association Agreement that was blocked was not the mentioned "deep common free-trade area" but agreement to increase co-operation between EU and Ukraine and within 10 years form agreement about free(r) trade area between EU and Ukraine. So Ukraine could have signed it and be member of customs union with Russia.

They did And EU didn't make it us or them. You can check it yourself https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25162563 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-trade-idUSKCN0HI1T820140923 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/ukraine-european-union-trade-russia https://www.brookings.edu/on-the-record/why-did-ukraines-yanukovych-give-in-to-russian-pressure-on-eu-deal/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/ukraine-suspends-preparations-eu-trade-pact https://www.dw.com/en/harsh-words-with-russia-over-ukraine/a-17301176 https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/ukraine-stuns-eu-by-putting-association-deal-on-ice/ https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2013-11-27/ukraine-withdraws-signing-association-agreement-vilnius-motives-and

Russia has lot of issues with EU Russia blocked EU's and Ukraine's cooperation pact in 2013 when Yanukovich was in charge

In Finland support from Nato changed from one party publicly supporting it and 21% of population supporting joining to all put all parties publicly supporting joining to Nato and 65% of population supporting joining. Change is mainly caused by fact that Russia is willing to sacrifice so much for little gain which caused people lose faith to foundation of Finland's defense which is to make attack cost so much that there is no benefit for doing so, but such defense doesn't work against enemy which is willing to sacrifice all for nothing. Finland is also putting Sweden in difficult situation as big sunk of Sweden defense currently relies on co-operation with Finland and it seems that Swedish politicians fear that they will lose that co-operation if Finland joins in Nato and Sweden does not.

Don't you need 60 to prevent filibuster

US uses often same approach towards international agreements as Russia, meaning that if they don't like one they don't follow it. Countries could complain to UN where US and Russia use their veto powers to kill such complaints. EDIT: There is no police which enforces international law, it gets enforced only when other countries decide to enforce it. Same goes to all international agreements. “Where is the security that the security council needs to guarantee? It’s not there, although there is a security council. So where is the peace? Where are those guarantees that the United Nations needs to guarantee? It is obvious that the key institution of the world which must ensure the coercion of any aggressor to peace simply cannot work effectively.” -Zelenskiy

US and EU acted according to Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances which Russia has also signed Russia broke their several of their international agreements and their own constitution If they have legal reason to impose sanctions then they don't break any contracts but otherwise they do. Acceptance of legal sanctions is stipulated by UN General Assembly or UN security council which both Russia is also member It is not in Russia (except cases where approved legislation is against Russian constitution and Duma didn't use constitutional change process), but it does not mean that it isn't against agreements signed by Russia,

Uniper plans to pay with euros, but using scheme where Russian bank switches them to rubles. Ruble is not freely traded so it has currently value decided by Russian central bank as you can only buy rubles from them.

Need to register to vote and you need to do it periodically in most states and voting ballots are filled with billion different elections and referendums and insistence to keep election during week days make voting quite shore, compared to many other countries.

My message was to give details about The Moscow Times as people in this thread didn't seen to be familiar with it and where it operates and is it Russian publication.

The Moscow Times was founded in Moscow 1992 by Dutch immigrant Derk Sauer and Annemarie van Gaal. Where its headquarters remained until March 2022. The Moscow Times started as English language paper for tourist and expats. It started as free twice a week print. 2005 Finnish publishing group Sanoma bought it with 142M€. 2015 Sanoma sold it to Demyan Kudryavtsev who stopped publishing printed version and moved it fully to internet. 2017 Derk Sauer bought it with Vladimir Jao and Svetlana Korshunova. Sauer owns 19% of its stock because Russian law that does not allow foreign people own over 20% of Russian media. The Moscow Times started Russian language version in 2020, it is currently blocked in Russia. English version is still freely accessible.

Putin always has such War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength mentality when he gives these statements

Clearly Australia needs to attack to Solomon Island to ensure that their territory is not threatened, as such actions seem to be acceptable by most of world

It is bit closer than in last time when Macron won LePen 66% - 34% Only reason why there was doubt was that left wing voters don't like Macron at all, there was question if they don't vote at all or if they give protest votes for LePen, but it seem that most of them hate LePen even more than they hate Macron. It will not be easy five years for Macron considering that Political field is pretty much split three almost equal size parts and voters confidence towards classical parties is almost zero. So France political field most likely will see big changes in incipient election cycle

It depends on who wins. If Russia wins then Ukraine is out of luck, if Ukraine wins it will get some level aid, level depends how long the conflict will last. Now Ukraine could get unprecedented amount of aid, but longer conflict goes less political points aid will give for politicians

Flooding tunnels isn't necessary that easy as it is large industrial area close to sea. If they have not cut cost and not build flood protections and underground drain it could be easier as is seen in some places where heavy rain causes flooding, but if tunnels are build like metro stations then flooding them takes quite lot water. Below sea level tunnels need to have water drains and flood rooms, in order to avoid then filling water because of rain and strong rising tide. Industrial area also usually have flood blockers in sea side in order to prevent sea eating land under the area (of course cost cutting cases aren't that uncommon as is seen multitude of times when sinkholes have appeared in industrial and residential areas). Even easy case you need to dig channels or build pipes for the water which isn't that easy when there are hostile enemies that will try to prevent you doing so by shooting you.

Considering that they have tried to attack to them weeks, it does indicate that Russian leadership didn't have accurate picture of them as they know got order just to surround area. I am not familiar of the landscape of the area, but it seem that flooding those tunnels isn't simplest operation or at least requires equipment that Russian troops don't have, as there is no indication that they have even tried such. Bunker buster bombs aren't that good against long tunnels because they are designed to direct their explosion directly downward to break bunker ceiling, but in case of tunnels they have been ineffective in past conflicts because they are more expensive than 'normal' bombs and breaking small part of under ground tunnel network usually does nothing to prevent enemy using them. Which is why USA had lots of problems with ISIS and Vietcong's tunnels, even when they were able to locate them.

I think it is more because Russian's realized that it is death trap that Ukraine has build since 2014. They have dig there several kilometres worth of underground tunnels with defensive positions to make it very difficult to storm. So Russians leadership probably realized that by blockading and bombardment they can free their troops to other battlefronts and avoid losing troops unnecessary for little gain.

https://casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SEL-in-Elementary-Math-8-20-17.pdf SEL instructions for Elementary schools seem to focus on how students are able to focus better on studying and how to do group work and to link math to real world. All things in that instruction sound pedagogically sound for me.

State where head of state is leader of state's official church?

Funny thing about 'Republic, not a Democracy' is that it means that people feel that country is either oligarchy or autocracy with mix of democracy. Or maybe they just think that it does not feel like democracy but they know they aren't ruled by monarch, like for example Republic of Bureaucracy (Rule by a system of governance with many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials) As Republic is form of government where primary positions of power are either appointed through democracy or mix of democracy and oligarchy or autocracy and most important thing is that the head of the state is not monarch.

It carried two types of ballistic missiles that have nuclear warhead variants. But It is unlikely that they have wasted storage base for ammunition that they aren't planning to use.