a certain large, Russian speaking, European country which borders the Russian Federation. The situation there is not going to change any time soon and it makes no sense to constantly dance around the topic. Sure, there will be users who spew crap, cite questionable news sources, hurl insults and hijack the threads, but so what? For every 10 meaningless posts, there is usually one post that says something interesting or at least makes a person reconsider what he/she believes to be true. I have even seen people on here change their position slightly.

What is happening there should be of interest to whoever is interested in politics concerning Russia, not to mention that Russian language is used there and this is a forum about Russian language.