Well if you are interested, since I can speak to some degree several Slavic languages. The Slavic speakers, like speakers of the Romance languages, have some degree of mutual intelligibility across a… (View Post)

Many of the Russian speakers in Ukraine are even more hostile to Putin´s Russia than everyone else in Ukraine: not least because they have been the biggest victims of the war. It will be like Norther… (View Post)

Not enough space... and I'm hardly biased in favour of the Tories am I, Malc? (View Post)

Paddy Ashdown would have eaten these wannabes for breakfast. (View Post)

Putin's rule in Russia is best characterised as a serious of catastrophic economic decisions which has left the Russian economy disastrously under invested and undervthe control of brutal mafia … (View Post)