Interesting Links for 01-08-2015

[andrewducker]

• How to tell if a process is out of control
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• Cthulhu for the modern world
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• China has been building islands in the South China Sea
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• UK companies to produce anti-slavery supply chain reports
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• Disinheritance and the law: Why you can’t leave your money to whoever you please
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Comments

[maadmike]

•On Russian government's non-response to economic problems ◦(tags: Russia economics

[andrewducker]

I'm always interested in more opinions!

One note - the number of immigrants living in the UK has doubled since 1970 - but it's still only about 12%. There are no cities that are made of immigrants - even London, which is one of the highest hotspots is only 37% immigrant.

[maadmike]

I am talking about some suburbs cities of France and you are all the countries of EU. I've heard only that the situation in England is not far from could be called unbearable... but you know better ofcourse.

[andrewducker]

France is 8.8% immigrant, even lower than the UK. I'm sure that there are some suburbs where they've been packed in too tightly, but overall the numbers are reasonably low.

Neither of them is unbearable, by any means. In fact the UK is largely dependant on immigrants to do a lot of the work, as we don't have enough children of our own...

Besides which, part of the point of the EU was to get rid of the idea of borders between the nations, and allow people to live where they liked.

[maadmike]

I am glad that you are so wise not to see a problem here. We, Russians are depending on the immigrants very much too, but our government enacts the laws lately under which the immigrants will take exams on Russian language and which are tighten a control over criminals, because according to the criminal's data, the offenses had committed by the unemployed immigrants is prohibitively high, but I would not want to seem like a man who cares a lot about a problem of legal or illegal immigration. I've answered mostly on the post about the welfare of Russians ...

[strannik01]

I haven't lived in Russia in ages, so I have no perspective of what the living conditions are like in Moscow. I'm not about to take just one editorial as gospel. But it's worth pointing out that the editorial doesn't say that nobody can buy a car или квартиру, or send their kids в частные школы и вузы. It's arguing that the economic trends aren't favorable to Russia's middle class (oligrarchs are a different story - for better or for worse, they'll probably find ways to float to the top), and that the federal government should really do something about it.

It may be that those statistics aren't accurate. But if they are, I would argue that the government shouldn've wait until the economy tumbles down to early 1990s levels to do something.

[maadmike]

The situation is better, and is unlikely to approach to the nightmare of nineties. I am living at Moscow region and I don't need to go to Australia or Europe to earn hundreds of dollars - I can do it here. It is just that you should understand what to do and how to do now and then...

Many Russians just don't want to start their own business. Everybody I know who did it, live as the rich Europeans...

[maadmike]

"It may be that those statistics aren't accurate. But if they are, I would argue that the government shouldn've wait until the economy tumbles down to early 1990s levels to do something."

Believe me our government do a lot but we are in the state of war thanks to the cute politic of USA - while USA peacefully sitting far away, pushes the foreheads of neighbors for their own benefit...

[maadmike]

All this - the Ukrainian war, the plane crash are sewn with white threads... the instruments to make what USA likes...

[maadmike]

Did you read many USA newspapers where were told that there are some economic problems in Ukraine or Georgia? I think you didn't. If the USA is so anxious about of the Russian economy so why it doesn't bother with the Ukrainian and Georgian economies if the authority of this countries had been telling their people for years that the USA is a friend and certainly will help to solve any problems

[strannik01]

Did you read many USA newspapers where were told that there are some economic problems in Ukraine or Georgia?

I haven't seen much about Georgia recently, but plenty of Western media outlets have covered economic problems in Ukraine. New York Times, the Atlantic magazine, BBC News, the Economist, Vice. And those are just the ones I can think of atop of my head.

More to the point, I am not sure why you're bring up American newspapers. The editorial I translated was from a news outlet that's very much Russian. I get was more information about Ukrainian Crisis and what's going on at the Motherland from Gazeta.ru, Kommersant and other Russian media outlets than I do from Western ones.

Everyday Ukrainian army is killing peacful Russian citizens of East Ukraine

See, I find it very interesting that you focus on Russian citizens dying. Even though most of the civilians dying in Eastern Ukraine are Ukrainians. But I guess that doesn't fit into the whole "bloodthirsty Nazis killing innocent Russian children" narrative quite as nicely.

[maadmike]

"More to the point, I am not sure why you're bring up American newspapers