Moscow forces U.S. to close down its aid mission in Russia

[panchul]

First, the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/moscow-forces-u-close-down-aid-mission-russia-000447314.htmlRead more... )

Comments

[fierceleaf]

I think that this aid wasn't helpful from the very beginning.

If opposition leader reveals that he receives US grants it will put an end on his/her career as an electable politician. People in Russia don't share extreme anti-american attitudes, like some Arabs, but people are very skeptical about the purity of USDep's intentions given the mess in the Middle East and all kinds of "Color Revolutions" and "Arab Springs".

[ddstory]

I wonder why Russian speakers never use the word "the" when speaking English.

[htpcl]

They don't have the definite article because the extensive system of verb cases in the Russian language substitutes it. I've seen many Russians who've lived for many years in Bulgaria still failing to grasp how the definite suffixes in our language work (we don't have definite articles before the words, instead we attach suffixes at the end of words to indicate them).

[ddstory]

At least you have something like a definite system, which explains why it's no trouble for you to put the "the" and "a" in their right places. :)

[marina_herriott]

All Panchul’s comments which I met are evidence that he hates America. For example, his first comment to the first post of McFaul - here.
About Montana.

[mahnmut]

So what. I've been called America-hater too. Doesn't matter that disapproving many (most?) of a country's foreign policies does not equate "hating" said country, but then again, who cares what nuance is and how it works?

What we're discussing here is an event and the OP's respective reaction to it - so why bring up their perceived hatred for something, I mean what's the relevance here?

[marina_herriott]

I agree with the opinion above: "some posts in social networks in Russian get paid per piece".

[mahnmut]

I'm sure they do. I wish I were paid for writing in blogs. Shrug.

[nairiporter]

Could you use a lj-cut?

[underlankers]

Let's be frank here: Russia under Putin is not a democracy nor anything like one, nor does it really have all that much in the way of sympathy for the USA now any more than it has had in the past. That the USAID mission is closed down reflects Putin's need to justify authoritarian policies more than it does USA anything.

[lyuden]

>Russia under Putin is not a democracy nor anything like one

I voted for Putin, and more than a half of population too (It's strange but people care much more about social policy and stability than freedom). Even opposition do not dispute presidential election results much (40+ % they claim don't change anything, really and I don't believe them), only election in parliament. We have issues but it isn't near anything like that hell I am reading in newspapers.

> Does it really have all that much in the way of sympathy for the USA now any more than it has had in the past.

Wow. It's little too rough.
Cuba still has nukes near your shores?
Doesn't USA has military base on Russian territory and flight corridor over Siberia.
Doesn't Russia ferry USA astronauts to ISS ?

[underlankers]

Geopolitical aims can be served without sympathy for one state on the part of another.

[lyuden]

Oh, sympathy? Doesn't it need to be reciprocal ? Two (Afghanistan, Georgia) of three last wars Russia fought was against forces that had american war instructors on their side. I don't think sympathy is realistic goal in such circumstances.

[kylinrouge]

We can't let anything get in the way of the indefinite reign of Czar Putin!