News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

If someone will come to invest substantial amount to new enterprise - I think he/she will not have problems with hiring russian-speaking Pole as a executive director. ;) Otherwise, obviously, he/she must be fluent in Polish and live in Poland enough to know local people and be able to avoid stupid misunderstandings that may cause serious problems with personnel from nothing.

I seen a lot of really stupid things that was done by "just from US" managers in Russia in a similar situation. ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

By the way, there was two Kaliningrads in Russia. One was near Moscow, and most people was pleased when it was renamed to Korolev (in a memory of legendary space program leader and general constructor).

So name swap story looks funny now. Koenigsberg/Królewiec now Kaliningrad, and Kaliningrad (former Podlipki) now Korolev. ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

Hm... One more prophet... ;)

Well, see what happened in a republics that managed to break out from USSR in the past. I cannot say that everything is just perfect there.

The one of brightest examples is Georgia. Their nationalistic government break all ties with Russia... Just to find that there is not so much markets where their traditional products (overpriced friuts, parody to tea, second-grade vines, etc) is welcome. They was one of most prosperous republics in USSR, now they have little more than 1/4 of russian GDP (per capita).

Travel / Can I enter first to Poland having a Czech visa? [13]


Some useful reading...

ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/freetravel/visa/docs/c_2010_1620_en.pdf

There _is_ such thing as national long stay visa.

From the document above:

Example: a Ukrainian national is staying in Spain on the basis of national long stay visa. He
wishes to return to Ukraine by car via France, Germany and Poland.
The Ukrainian national should apply for a visa at a French consulate in Spain (cf. point
2.3.2).23

Travel / Can I enter first to Poland having a Czech visa? [13]


There WAS such thing as C+D visas (Schengen short stay + national long stay). AFAIK it was issued before Apr 5, so there is a lot of such visas still valid.


For me, it looks like that holders of modern equivalent of former D type visa now granted same rights as holders of former C+D.

History / Chances of Moscow becoming part of Poland again? [102]

Will not comment other stuff but...


It is suitable for living right now. Provided you are ready to change your life style. ;) And there is square kilometers of land necessary to support life of one person, instead of just square meters in a more warm and fertile places. If it will be slightly warmer, that lands may support more people, but density of self-sufficient population there never be even remotely comparable to ones in India or southern China. Even to Western/Central Europe..

So, just counting of square kilometers is totally dumb idea. Try to count people that land can feed (guaranteed) - result will be much more realistic.

Small caucasian tribes fear that they will be finally dissolved in Russian ethnos... Well, more than real perspective (and, sooner or later, it will..). But many of them marrying within clans that already have too much common predecessors. Not good for their gene pool, of course.

History / Chances of Moscow becoming part of Poland again? [102]


Land is not necessarily should be grass covered to support life. Look how Chukchas lived for centuries. ;) But, really, it is all about square kilometers per person to survive (just above absolute minimum for survival).


Poland is large enough. A number of tribes totalled less than 50000 each have much more reasons to fear it.

History / Chances of Moscow becoming part of Poland again? [102]

Personally, I do not know anyone of Polish decent in eastern part of Russia (i.e. Siberia and Far East). One of two families in Moscow that is known to me use Polish on a family level sometimes, kids are fluent in English as well, another one is looks pretty much like typical russian family, never heard them speaking Polish on a public, but they often visit their Polish relatives.

Life / Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do. [69]

Lots of people love to pick mushrooms in Russia. Usually it looks like as a family event. But, unfortunately, not so many young people who grown in cities really know some poisonous mushrooms that is similar to edible ones. So, usually all what was picked shown to some "babushka" later, and often half of all what was picked goes to waste at once. ;)

We had some prety large military range closed for general public near place where I live before. We used to know a nice hidden hole in the fence and where guard usually reside, so we picked lots of mushrooms there. ;) Once was caught by guard, it looked in our bags with some mushrooms, laughed and just told us to avoid to pick or step to any unfamiliar items that may be on the ground. We talked little bit, and it turned out that they guarding mostly moving training targets installations after some gypsies attempted to stole copper wiring and electric motors and sell copper to local scrap metal dealers.

Life / Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do. [69]


You simply don't know how to cook them. ;)

Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]


Unfortunately, these guys in HK was not so high... ;) They just tried to make at least some use of something they learned in school in a cold war times. ;)


Alphabet is not so big problem. I have a friend that learned thai language - alphabet was easiest part, as they said later. And Cyrillic is much closer to Latin than Thai to any of them.

You'll have real troubles learning Chinese...

History / POLISH MEMORIES OF CHERNOBYL...April 26th 1986 [32]


Can't remember families now, but suspect that there was both. And I would not name them "scientists", more likely engineers of various disciplines, that was need to run a test to improve security procedures during planned reactor shutdown.

One of worst things was that the person who lead this test was electrician, not very familiar with nuclear physics. And another bad thing that lead to this disaster is interruption of experiment (dispatcher of energetic system disabled further lowering of power due to accident on other electric plant so they was forced to keep just lowered partial power level for a while to prevent blackouts during peak hours). In fact, when they was given green light to continue, reactor was in state that was not planned by ones who checked and sanctioned experiment plan.

Domino effect due to multiple small mistakes - from design flaw in regulating rods construction to intervention of persons that follows their own instructions (like dispatcher that was in charge for keeping whole grid working) but not understand consequences of their perfectly legal commands. Step by step, they put reactor to state that was never planned by designers, when emergency shutdown button on a control panel acted as a self-destruction button.


I'm not communism fan, but I can easily remember at least ten things that can happen to the world and that is much worse than communism. ;)

History / POLISH MEMORIES OF CHERNOBYL...April 26th 1986 [32]


LOL...

"The China Syndrome" is a name of movie (depicting an accident at a nuclear reactor) that was released just days before Three Mile Island reactor accident in United States.

History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]


Well... Cossacks writes some historical document on this painting... By the way, does anyone readed exact text of that document? ;)

By the way it is not so bad... ;)

Отвiт запорожцiв Магомету IV.
Ти, султан, чорт турецкий, i проклятого чорта брат i товарищ, самого Люцеперя секретарь. Якiй ты в черта лыцарь, коли голою сракою ежака не вбъешь. Чорт высирае, а твое вiйско пожирае. Не будешь ты, сукiн ты сыну, сынiв христiянських пiд собой маты, твойого вiйска мы не боiмось, землею i водою будем биться з тобою, распроеб твою мать. Вавилоньский ты кухарь, Макидоньский колесник, Iерусалимський бравирник, Александрiйський козолуп, Великого и Малого Египта свинарь, Армянська злодиюка, Татарський сагайдак, Каменецкий кат, у всего свiту i пiдсвiту блазень, самого гаспида внук и нашего хуя крюк. Свиняча ты морда, кобыляча срака, рiзницька собака, нехрещений лоб, мать твою еб. От так тобi запорожцi виcказали, плюгавче. Не будешь ти i свиней христiанских пасти. Теперь кончаемо, бо числа не знаемо i календаря не маемо, мiсяц у небi, год у книзя, а день такий у нас, якиi i у Вас, за це поцелуй в сраку нас! Пiдписали: кошевой атаман Иван Сирко зо всiм кошем Запорожськiм.

History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]

Translation sounds much much "flatter" than original... But here it is...

Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!

Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil's brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou a son of a b*tch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f*ck thy mother.

Thou art the Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-f*cker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian villain, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, a fool before our God, a grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!

So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Thou wilt not even be herding Christian pigs. Now we shall conclude, for we don't know the date and don't have a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year in the book, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!

Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host

History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]

Sure...

But, for complete understanding, here is a text of letter what was answered... ;)

As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the Sun and Moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians—I command you, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

News / POLISH GAS RESERVES [40]


Possibilities are endless. Just plant more beans. ;)

In reality, there is many questions that should be answered first. Is there enough reserves to make drilling economically reasonable? How many "ballast" gases it contain in addition to methane? What sort of preparation will be necessary to be able to transport it (is it enough to dry it, or it is necessary to remove sulfur compounds to make it less corrosive)?

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


I hope well documented personal participation of Zakayev in murder of two orthodox priests in 1996 (definitely, not armed forces) is enough to start thinking that something is wrong?


I think nobody will ask your approval. ;)

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


Private message is correct place for something personal. You replied in public forum instead, so be prepared for comments.


If there is criminals, can you give an examples of their crimes? Not the common words, but places and dates. I can look what is available in Russian speaking sources in Internet about this. But a bit later - leaving home tomorrow for a 3 week business trip and have no time right now.

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]

In relation to chechens, I easily believe that someone whispered them "you have a chance to survive if you will say that you was forced to sign this, but definitely no chances if you will confirm this"...

And, of course, most "crimes against chechens" have a very similar level of documentation. They often solve their inter-clan problems by killing someone, and then show the photos of dead body to the world and say "look what russians do..." One shot, two bunnies hunted...

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]

From the same source...

On 31 August 1999, at 20:00 local time, a powerful explosion took place in a busy Moscow shopping center. One person was killed and 40 others injured.

On 4 September 1999, at 22:00, a car bomb detonated outside a five story apartment building in the city of Buynaksk. The building was housing Russian border guard soldiers and their families. 64 people were killed and 133 were injured in the explosion.

On 9 September 1999, shortly after midnight local time, at 20:00 GMT, 300 to 400 kg of explosives detonated on the ground floor of an apartment building in south-east Moscow (19 Guryanova Street). The nine-story building was destroyed, killing 94 people inside and injuring 249 others. 15 nearby buildings were also damaged.

On 13 September 1999, at 5:00 a.m., a large bomb exploded in a basement of an apartment block on Kashirskoye Highway in southern Moscow, about 6 km from the place of the last attack. 118 people died and 200 were injured.

A truck bomb exploded on 16 September 1999, outside a nine-story apartment complex in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk, killing 17 people and injuring 69.

Compare the dates, of course...

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


What will happen if I will say "Yes"? What differences we'll observe if I will say "No"?

And, by the way, Polish justice already said their word... So, nothing more to discuss here.


Sounds to me similar to phrase "I hate racism and nigg@s"... ;)

You think about prosecuting the ones who must follow orders under fear of another prosecution, but what about ones who issued that orders?

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


Well, I'm officer (in reserve) of Russian Army, tank forces.

Imagine that I'm tank commander and hear the order radioed to me - "red brick building, second right from the road, ATM launcher inside, destroy"...

Here is two options of what I will do...

1. I'll say "Sorry, Sir, I cannot see through walls, there may be civilians inside as well. Think what tribunal in Hague would say..."

2. Quickly select HE shell on loading system (if not loaded already), target well and happily press the trigger, praying that the guy in that building didn't manage to press their first.

Try to imagine, which option I will select in real life....

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


And, highly possible, my so liberal and humanity-filled brain will be well mixed with my not so pleasant looking sh*t and that mix will be fried well with kerosene flames, if the guy in that building is lucky one.

And even if the guy is not so lucky, I would prefer to face (maybe, sometime in future) with judges of Hague tribunal rather than face with field tribunal of my own army. ;)


And I'm currently electronics engineer, head of R&D department of small company manufacturing some aftermarket automotive electronics. And, as I said above, reserve officer of tank forces... ;)

Believe me, I would always prefer to visit Poland as electronics engineer on a car... ;)

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


It was a pretty large box filled with something like this... ;) (Few sets mixed together to allow building of something decent, with all available options like electric motors and various gears).


Looks like your recent childhood was not so good... ;)

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


Yeah... Looks like you are dream of any government in any country...

"Recht oder Unrecht mein Vaterland"

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


Russia is demolished and rebuilt Grozny in Chechnya. Do you think it was great investment for my tax money? ;)

PS: Good luck to everyone, will fly to Vilnius in less than 10 hours and then 1000++ km trip on a car so need to sleep little bit.

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


Last comment for today...

In the past it was independent (relatively) territory, and one of main sources of income was robbery and supplying slaves to markets of Osman empire. The same as with Crimean Tatars that supplied turkish garems with nice Russian, Ukrainian and Polish girls.

Lots of russian soldiers died there, Russia take control of Caucasus, and south of Russia become much more safe place to live after that.

In facto, they get independence in 1990's, and as you can imagine, one of most popular sources of income again become kidnapping for ransom, together with slave labor exploitation. They tried to expand for Daghestan one time, and together with massive terror bombing in Moscow caused second massive conflict, finally killing any hopes for independence (Russia MUST control this territory just for their own safety). I do not expect any changes there.

If they will get independence third time - it will last not so long, because of chechen national "business style"... We will have to fight them again and very soon.


As I said, I'm electronic engineer. Can say which requests we constantly got in 1990's... "Some device (transmiter) that covertly worn on a kid and matching compact receiver with direction finding capabilities carried by parent. Must indicate that transmitter is out of reasonable range and allow to send signal by pressing on top of transmiter."

So, I don't think that people living in southern Russia has nothing from it.

Travel / One night hour in Warsaw (with a car) - is there any "must see" places? [6]

Well... Returned from that trip. Got less time in Warsaw than expected, but at least nobody can say now that I never been there. ;)

Same with Paris and Berlin. ;)

Way back was crazy, 2700 km in about 35 hours with 2 short stops. Never again... ;)