Absolutely. I know Lampada got fed up and annoyed last time. Some people went too far (some Russians and one or two Ukrainians), others ranted (me) but things have changed.

With 6 months hiatus, I think people got the message to keep it civil regarding :this country:

There are no other places online where intelligent Russian speaking people from both sides of the conflict explain their views in English. MR has a unique position to be a forum of discussion. An intelligent and reasonably polite discussion on this, in English, would generate traffic to the site, no doubt.

Any discussion about UA could start with a warning that people who cross the line of decent forum behaviour, swear or get personal will automatically get banned for a month.

5000 have died, a million are "refugees" in Russia or Western Ukraine... It's the reason for the sanctions on Russia and subsequently the dramatic fall of the rouble. It's the biggest civil war in Europe since Yugoslavia. We can't debate issues to do with Russia without bringing it up.