They do. Each state university has about 1 payed student to 4 who are studying free of charge (i'm one of them ).

One trait of a good leader is to know when to interfere and when not to.

OswaldTheOsprey

Being called nonsensical by you is like being called ugly by a wart hog!

OswaldTheOsprey

Nay. It is probably poison.

OswaldTheOsprey

We could have a worse future.

OswaldTheOsprey

Good riddance. Do you call a success harsh demographic crisis and total oppression of social insitutions?
What the hell of Polish and Czech examples are you talking about? Privatization a la Chubais?
Total deindustrialization and capital flight is the result of your phucking liberal reforms. Ask your Polish friends did they experience anything similar? Only a slight form of recession, eh.
Don't talk about things you don't get, mister.

scientists are ruled by government.


collapse. not oppression.


eh? There was no capital by the beginning of the reforms. How much capital ther was in 1990? 1980?  The country was OUTDATED (compared to West) in every dimension except military. Industry, communications, infrastructure, housing, most of all, - minds, everything was OBSOLETE. I remember though I was young. Many of my friends had to wait for DECADES to get separate hosing, living meanwhile in 'obschezhitiya" or "kommunalki". U had to wait for YEARS to get a home phone. People waited for YEARS on a queue to buy a car. There was not enough of anything, except supersonic jets and ballistic missiles. Tell your Ali Baba tales to Westerners who were not there in the USSR. SLow outdated repressive closed secretive totalitarian society with obsolete industry and perpetually malfunctioning infrastructure. Chernobyl was the outcome. The coal mines STILL blow up every few months killing 20-50-70 men at a time. What CAPITAL you're talking about? Capital only began arriving after the reforms commenced. The government screwed up , and the capital flew. Then came back.


why should they? They did it the Polish way. You did it the Russian way. Ask my Polish friends? OK, I'll ALSO ask them about the Kollectivization, the Industrialization, the Big Chistka (Cleansing), the GOLODOMOR of 1933 in my Ukraine that killed 3 or 5 or 8 MILLION. ALSO about GULAG and NKVD-KGB, about people getting arrested because of something they wrote in a paper and shot through the head  in a basement. All this crap my Polish friends did NOT have. They also did NOT have the a-la-Choob-ice stuff. Why would they? They did it the Polish way, you did it your Russian way..


don't do the things u can't, komrade.

government consists of showmen. Democratic government consists of showmen, autocratic government consists of thugs. They employ scientists for various purposes, decide which areas of research are priority, where the funds go, etc. If the US gov consisted of scientists, it would have a very different policy on every single issue, - Iraq, global warming, stem cells research, "intelligent design" taught at schools, etc. How many people u throw into violent laughter by this phrase...


yea sure yea. No one cared about oppressing your post-Soviet "institutions"; they simply collapsed. Too much trouble to oppress them. Same happened in 1917. WHo was at fault then?


Russians always see their own crap as someone's conspiracy. Ye rright, the CIA and Armenian mafia came to Russia and put everyone on the needle. Couldn't handle so much freedom ,eh? You need the daddy to knock u on the head and tell you not to mess with drugs. You don't have enough brains to make this decision for yourselves.


?! Typical Russian. So u need to OCCUPY a country to make sure YOUR people don't consume drugs made in this country? You have to keep 120 000 soldiers in Afghanistan so that kids in Moscow don't take Afghan heroin? Are there any other methods to cut the supply of Afghan drugs to Russia maybe? Think about it when u have free time from attending pro-Pooting demonstrations organized by your university dean.

And BTW, I know all too well, due to familiarity with a few heroin-addicts in Ukraine that most stuff in this part of the world is made DOMESTICALLY from DOMESTIC INDIGENOUS SLAVIC POPPY. Fancy foreign drugs are for fancy people with money.


and what was that hi tech outside of the military area? Zaporozhets? Anyone who lived a few years in Sovok knows that Soviet technology, whether automotive, TV, and most of consumer items, was hopeless. Some good photocameras were produced. "Otechestvennoye" (domestically produced) was a synonym of low-quality. And even it was in deficiency. People tried to use their WWII veteran relatives to get a car because veterans had a fast-track waiting "only" 3-4 years.


or you can buy a phone to order pizza (unheard of in Sovok). See, that's the problem with you Russians,  you have a choice to buy heroin or pizza, you chose heroin and blame Americans for your own choice. And want to occupy a country from which the heroin comes. Go back to Afghanistan, you can fight there both Afghans and Americans, everyone is waiting. The other day you lashed at Americans because...Russia accepted American education test system. U said it was crap. Well, if it's crap - don't take it, don't imitate it, don't parrot it. But no, with u it's all America's fault. Learn to be responsible for your own actions, tovarisch.


that's true. The curse of Western existence, paying the mort-gage until you're 60. And yet... it all comes to what share of your income you pay. Most Westerners pay a significant but not a crippling part of their income, have a comfortable housing (beyond comparison with what most people have in Russia), and still have money to buy other things and afford vacations in Bahamas.


http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=mine+Russia+explosion&meta=



and whose fault was it? They produced things that could not bear competition. But anyway, do you know how many jobs the West loses to China and India and Lat America all the time?


find a single episode where i even distantly implied anything "Chosen" about Ukraine or even expressed pride or smth/


oh mama. Here u go. Yeltsin was told to bomb Chechnya by the West? He was told to spend huge money on his residence rennovations by the West? He was dictated the terms of privatization by the West? He was told to drink vodka while on state visit to Germany by the West? He was told to bomb the Parliament in '93 by the West? Do u know how much money the USSR owned to the West? USSR, not Yeltsin, had made huge debts.