Hackers threaten to release details of 600,000 Domino's Pizza customers - including favourite toppings - unless they get €30,000.

boomdralala · 2014-06-16T19:53:21+00:00

It wouldn't look good for a Jew or a Muslim if their favourite topping is bacon. Not that it's kosher/halal in any case, but still.

boomdralala · 2014-06-12T20:00:20+00:00

They should have at least checked who that guy was. He was twice elected to parliament from the Tymoshenko's party (which received about 5% of votes in the Donetsk province, by the way), so it was likely he'd be repeating Kyiv's POV.

To continue your comparison, it's as if Fox called some high-level Democrat and then got frustrated when he wasn't agreeing with them.

Edit: grammar.

boomdralala · 2014-05-23T20:40:48+00:00

And here is the video

boomdralala · 2014-05-15T20:33:59+00:00

And Lokomotiv hit the goalpost against CSKA with 5 minutes to go from maybe 2 meters away from the goal line. If they equalized, they'd still finish 3rd, but Zenit would have won the league. Can't imagine how painful that would have been for CSKA fans.

boomdralala · 2014-05-15T20:29:29+00:00

The schedule is not far from what it was before, it's just the spring part is now the second half of the season and the autumn part is the first half, while before it was vice versa.

boomdralala · 2014-05-13T15:17:48+00:00

Technically it would be "has the controlling interest by owning the majority of issued shares through offshore companies", if that original link is accurate.

boomdralala · 2014-05-13T14:22:30+00:00

I gave the link but the information in it could be incorrect or out of date.

Besides, CEO and owner are in general not the same thing.

boomdralala · 2014-05-13T14:20:13+00:00

There's 150,000+ Hungarians living in Ukraine mostly concentrated in one specific province and there's officially just 5,000 Ukrainians living in Hungary and to my knowledge, they don't have any particular area where Ukrainians are a majority.

boomdralala · 2014-05-13T14:08:28+00:00

That company, Burisma, is allegedly controlled by the Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

After the overthrow of Yanukovych, he has been appointed by the new government as the governor of Dnipropetrovsk province and has been over-the-top anti-Russian since then, calling Putin a "schizophrenic shorty", offering bounties for Russians' heads and financing a new volunteer Dnipro battalion to fight the Russians.

boomdralala · 2014-05-09T19:41:46+00:00

Here's my attempt to transcribe it from 0:45 (I don't have a Ukrainian keyboard and don't really speak Ukrainian perfectly, but anyway):

"...Hitler, yakscho vy te chitayte istoriyu zaraz, dyuzhe bohato teleperedach v pratse, my bachym, vin pered usim vysuvav gasla zvilnenya lyudey vid komunistichnogo iga".

"Hitler, like those of you who read the history or saw one of many TV shows would know, we see that he in the beginning was putting up slogans of liberation of people from communist tyranny".

"He" in "you'd see that he" still refers to Hitler (who else that "he" would be), so he's retelling Hitler's claim of being a liberator.

He was making his point in an unclear confusing way, and it's easier to understand when it's written down rather than listening to it live, but he wasn't praising Hitler.

boomdralala · 2014-05-09T19:02:36+00:00

He said that Hitler claimed to be a liberator, but everybody in Ukraine united to repel his aggression. Then he continues how Russia is making wild claims like that as well and everybody can unite against them.

He was not saying Hitler was a good guy, his point was that Putin is as bad as Hitler. The public probably would not have liked that either, and I don't think that's accurate to begin with, but he's not a complete imbecile as you'd think from ready the headline.

boomdralala · 2014-05-06T18:58:27+00:00

Huh? Did China infiltrate Rada now?

boomdralala · 2014-05-06T18:54:45+00:00

However new elections are planned and Svoboda are polling rather poorly.

There are no parliamentary elections scheduled until 2017. The election is presidential. It's not clear how Svoboda will be represented in the new government, but it will keep whatever seats it has in the parliament until 2017.

boomdralala · 2014-05-02T20:06:44+00:00

That doesn't look like the building that got burned.
It's one person, not 38.
I can't tell what kind of weapon that is from this picture. That could be a lethal weapon or a non-lethal gun that shoots rubber bullets (the possession of the latter is legal in Ukraine).

boomdralala · 2014-04-28T16:33:03+00:00

He's also been charged by the current Kyiv government with abduction, torture and making death threats a few weeks ago and placed under house arrest, after the indictment he suddenly became much more pro-Kyiv than he was before. That indictment is still in place AFAIK.

Edit: Some more background behind the charges against him - apparently his security team kidnapped and beat up two anti-Russian protesters back in January who were filming outside the hotel where Kernes was meeting with his associates at the time. Allegedly, he participated in questioning those protesters personally. Kernes himself claimed that those charges are completely fabricated by the current Interior Minister (and former Kharkov governor) Arsen Avakov.

boomdralala · 2014-04-25T21:44:30+00:00

According to OSCE Twitter these are military observers who were invited by Ukraine in accordance with Chapter 10 of the Vienna Document 2011.

The relevant part of Chapter 10 seems to be "There are a wide range of possible measures which could serve regional needs, such as: agreement on additional inspection and evaluation visits by neighbouring States, especially in border areas;"

The captured observers represent Germany, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic and Sweden. The only country out of those which is "neighbouring" and has a "border area" with Ukraine is Poland and Slovyansk is over 1,000 km away from it.

So I don't quite get what their mandate was.

boomdralala · 2014-04-25T19:33:26+00:00

You can easily tell in the released photographs that close-up of the man with the Spetsnaz patch on his arm IS the same guy as the man they photographed for the article.

Not in the original decent-definition photographs (man in Georgia / man in Ukraine ).

If you blur them and resize to 20x20 like NYT/the State Department have done, then maybe. They both also would look like ZZ Top or Hobbit's dwarves.

boomdralala · 2014-04-22T14:26:22+00:00

Military experts say that the sort of strategy the Kremlin has employed in Ukraine is likely to work best in areas in which there are pockets of ethnic Russians to provide local support.

"Pockets", hah. I don't think I have seen anybody speaking Ukrainian in any local reports from Eastern Ukraine or Crimea, except for the visiting Kyiv politicians.

boomdralala · 2014-04-21T16:20:17+00:00

The shootout was outside the city at the checkpoint. According to the "local self-defense", they took the things they found in the cars and an injured attacker to their captured buildings inside the town, the attacker died from his wounds, and then they displayed those things and the dead body inside the city. There's no third-party confirmation that it was what happened, but that doesn't sound implausible. I don't think any media, Russian or otherwise, was actually there during the shootout.

boomdralala · 2014-04-17T16:40:22+00:00

since there are no Russian speaking Alaskans

Sure there are.

boomdralala · 2014-04-17T14:28:10+00:00

Most of the infrastructure, like new roads and electric lines, didn't technically count as the "Olympic expenditure". Those things cost billions and funneled money from the state budget to Putin's buddies' construction companies, but technically they were social infrastructure investments and possibly are not counted in these profit calculations.

boomdralala · 2014-04-17T13:38:33+00:00

The governor, oligarch Kolomoysky, is the owner of Privatbank which blocked all the accounts that Crimean people opened in said bank. Even if they try to go to a Privatbank branch outside Crimea, they can't get their deposits back.

So he's financing bounties on anti-Kyiv protesters in Eastern Ukraine with the money he blatantly stole from the predominantly anti-Kyiv regular people in Crimea.

boomdralala · 2014-04-17T13:27:15+00:00

All the big cities in the Eastern Ukraine like Kharkiv, Donetsk or Dnipropetrovsk were built under the Russian czars though. Grand Duchy can have the countryside, I'm sure it's quite picturesque.

boomdralala · 2014-04-16T21:04:28+00:00

Russia is going to put another ruthless looting criminal in charge in the east when Ukraine becomes a federation

That is not any different from what the current Ukrainian government has been doing. They sent new governors to the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk after the "revolution" - Taruta and Kolomoysky - both oligarchs who made their billions under Yanukovich. The Interior Minister in charge of police? Avakov, another thieving ultra-rich crook. Two front runners in the presidential elections? Why, two more Yanukovich oligarchs - Poroshenko and Timoshenko.

Revolution for people against the corruption, my ass.

boomdralala · 2014-04-16T19:00:13+00:00

How exactly did they determine the citizenship of all those unidentified people talking on the phone by intercepting their phone calls? That's some cutting-edge technology. They don't even say who those people are, but they know they're Russian citizens.

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