I'm not sure what the relevance of a referendum during the collapse of the Soviet Union is to the reality of the region being severely damaged for nearly a decade now.
TheOctonaut
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You don't sound like ChatGPT
My friend I've been using the Internet for 27 years and developing for it for most of that time and I can promise you I've never once hit Alt+Left
Yeah I agree. Which is why the bot copying all its text here and denying them any traffic from this link aggregator site is bad.
To avoid the usual accusations I will have to give a preface, that must be longer than the short facts and citations I'm about to give: I do not support Russia. Their invasion is illegal and pointless. I am a neutral pacifist who despises both the invasion and NATO and its disruption of the anti nuclear weapon movement, but I would take the death of every Russian over a situation in which everyone in Eastern Europe is subject to oppressive Russian laws or faced with war if they are not. I would much prefer almost any other way of ending this war that is not a carte blanche to Russia to choose its next target. I am aware that Russia backs separatists in neighbouring countries when they go against their interests.
Just so it's clear, before this war actual ethnic Russians did exist in the now-occupied areas and they did want separation after Euromaidan and they did get bombed illegally by Ukraine, and Ukraine did in doing so hit civilians and civilian infrastructure. It takes large leaps of logic to call civilian aid in an area at war for 8 long years before the Russian invasion "subsidising Russia".
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munitions
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets-killing-civilians
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So... basically fuck this website?
Uh
Define popping up in conversation my dude
You have an issue with a news source that leads with "Let's Win The Battle Of Headlines"?
Yeah phew, good thing you're not at war with Russia
Why is Business Insider trying to write archaeology articles? This is awful.
That's... also irrelevant? We're talking about 8 years previous to that referendum. I'm pretty sure that referendum hadn't even happened yet when Ambramovich's assets were seized.