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Do you mean Julian? Question does it matter if Russia does not have much of Ukrainian Orthodox, in case of thinking that "since they're Orthodox." is explanation for something when Orthodox churches have started to split which calendar they use? Orthodox like all Christians celebrate Christmas December 25th, but Orthodox churches didn't switch to use Gregorian calendar, when it was released probably because it was done by Catholic church. 25th of December by Julian calendar currently hits to January 7th in Gregorian calendar (date is slowly moving towards summer because Julian calendar does not have leap years to even out fact that Earth doe not go around the Sun in 365 days, but in 365.256 days).

These days it probably needs to be specified as Russian Orthodox as Ukraine's Orthodox church moved to use Gregorian calendar and had their Christmas already

It seems that Musk's freedom of speech and democracy project is going well https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-musk-company-rcna62032 "Musk later joined the discussion, but briefly — getting out his talking points and then leaving abruptly. He had earlier put up a poll with a variety of options, asking whether or when he should reinstate the journalists’ accounts. When a plurality of respondents voted to restore the accounts immediately, he deleted the poll and started a new one with fewer options."

Russia does not have dedicated anti-air counter force, so their result maybe even less impressive as their HIMARS hunting. As anti-air platforms are usually in deep in enemy territory (especially long range systems like patriot) where only air force is able to operate with some efficiently and anti-air systems are designed to counter and destroy air force units. So it is quite suicidal job for anyone doing it.

At least Russia acts fast, as they soldiers were already securing rights of Russian speaking Ukrainian's just month after law was introduced

Where they get big sunk of foreign money in cash?

Yes, but you can't get them big sunk from bank as when someone deposit them in bank they go to be destroyed. So you would probably not see many of them used as bribes by foreign governments

It maybe only legitimate bill there as 500 euro bills were discontinued in 2019

Yep, Israel's jewish colonies in Palestinian also fully support jewish control of those areas.

They are all occupied countries, which France and UK have exploited and still do exploit. UK's overseas territories still don't have representation in parliament of UK, even though there should be , irrevocably guaranteed for all UK's citizens to have the same rights and representation they would have if born in England. So those territories are in subordinate states to main UK and therefore they are colonies. France gives better representation to its overseas territories, but they also lack equality to main France and are therefore colonies. EDIT: continuation of this topic belongs to general politics thread not here Ukraine thread.

All of them (when speaking of native population, in most of them french and british people make majority of population), making them independence these days almost impossible EDIT: France assassinated leaders of independence movements in Africa way after WW2. UK was not much nicer to its colonies. They just didn't have resource to keep bigger territories.

Native people of French Guiana, French Polynesia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna probably would disagree with that sentiment. There are also some people in British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar (especially after brexit), Anguilla, Bermuda, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands who also disagree with the sentiment.

Shingrix vaccination is not covered here by government's vaccination program, because it is determined to have excessive price and bad availability, but public hospitals give it free to high risk patients because even though Shingrix's is expensive they have determined that it is cheaper to vaccinate people than take care of them after shingles onsets. Private health insurance cover cost of all vaccinations outside of government vaccination program (for example yearly influenza vaccinations)

Funny thing is that Armenia gets more support from allies of its enemy's ally than its own allies. EDIT: Because keeping Turkey happy is more important for allies of Armenia than it is for Turkey's allies.

Russia? Belarus? Kazakhstan? Kyrgyzstan? Tajikistan? Union State? Or why does not Azerbaijan's aggression towards Armenia trigger CTSO's Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty (CST) which establishes that an aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all

I am sure that Armenia has been very happy be part of security organization that has given it next to nothing assistance when it has been under attack of its neighboring country and lost some of its territories

But you need to understand that (Is there right wing violence? yes) True == (Is there left wing violence? yes) True so it is equally bad in both sides!!!!!!!

What does their elections not free and fair if you compare them to twitter poll that was run unannounced for couple hours and closed before original deadline? Where no one checked if people voted with multiple accounts and did bot accounts (which Musk himself says run rampant in Twitter). As you such poll was example of democracy where result is the only reason why people don't like it. So is your reason why you think that Russia's Iran's and NK's elections aren't free and fair that you don't like outcomes? I would remind that people running bot farms in Russia, Iran and NK were able to participate in Musk's poll, to give it that extra freedom of letting government supported trolls have their voice heard.

Here elections are null and void if less than 50% of people vote. Do you think that Russia, Iran and North Korea have democratic and fair elections as they do have elections where people get to vote and person with most votes wins the election? And do you think that Russian referendums on areas that it conquered from Ukraine were fair and democratic and showed real will of people when result that they want to join Russia was option that got most votes?

It is not will of people if less than 10% of people entitled to vote, cast their vote. It is mockery of democracy, but Musk owns Twitter and therefore is it's dictator and is entitled to rule his platform anyway he chooses. But anyone who says that such polls are will of people and some how protecting freedom of speech are just lying themselves or just hate democracy and want to distort meaning of freedom of speech for some reason. But as Twitter is spiralling down of its own destruction because it is losing assets that made it popular in first place

Even FIFA starts to have doubts when their biggest sponsors are banned from the games and they are losing money in television deals and tickets sales are anything but good. But maybe Qatar is able to compensate FIFA's losses, who knows.

Court of arbitration decided today that Gazprom broke it contracts when it demanded payments in rubles and stopped delivering gas. Which could mean that Gazprom needs to pay hundreds of billions of euros compensations to gas companies around Europe.

Considering that if Russia fired it they would have fired it from Belarus or Black Sea, so statement that it wasn't fired from Russia is true almost every possible scenario

Russia has started to use high velocity anti ship missiles because Ukraine's air defense can't intercept them because their anti air missiles don't have enough speed to hit one, even though they aren't accurate against land targets. And as stock of Russian high speed cruise missiles get thinner and Ukraine does not have air force or missiles which Russia needs high speed air defense missiles to defend against it would not be surprise if they have decided to use those missiles to bombard Ukraine as even though they are less accurate they still be more effective than lower speed missiles as Ukraine is not able to shoot them down

They can be used but they suffer from poor accuracy which is why they are used even less often than shorter range variants. Edit: none of the S-300 variants have designed to be used primarily against ground targets. But all of them are technically cabale to target ground targets