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Нет. Рыбачил только в 12 лет, когда отдыхали на Волге. Очень нравилась рыбалка.

Это окунь?

I think, they could not go to Russia without a visa before 2008.

What are those ways?

That's false.

Very fair to Russian speakers law.
Russian was widely used in the former USSR because it was the most spread language.

Why doesn't Russian language have any status in Latvia if there are so many native Russian speakers?
Why did Hanna get a strange reaction when she sterted speaking Russian to people in Riga?

Do they think in the same way?

Набежали русофобы упёртые.

It depends. I had very little experiance with Ukrainian and no experiance with Belorussian. When people speak slowly, I can understand them, but I don't understand films. That's the question of...

Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian are essentially the same language. A man on Lingvoforum (Wulfilla) said he heard strange Swedish and it turned to be Danish.

And I think Russia has subsidized quite a lot, and it was real help to the economy (cheap gas and oil and open market to Belorussian products). It cannot be compared with the EU, which paid to...

He is from the USSR and a native Russian speaker, haven't you understood?

Probably it looked similar. My grandmother used to say that Minsk was very clean, that the defieciency was smaller.
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they would probably like more to have education in their language, better ideology and equal rights with Latvians.

The miracle was before the crisis.
A Russian from Riga told me Riga was a...

Have you asked any russian in Latvia what they think about the situation?

Maybe it is a little bit better, but in general the situation in Latvia and Estonia is the same.

Most of them - yes. When Latvia became independent, they did not give citizenship to those whose ancestors did not live in Latvia before 1940. Most Russians did not get citizenship (Russians were...

Well, people are different, but those who regularly go to the church are really religious in general. There is no tradition of going to the church in Russia because religion was heavily oppressed...

I've always thought postsoviet countries are mostly atheist, but it turns there are even more atheist!

Or maybe vice-versa

I think the language situation in Belarus is similar to that of Norwey, where there are two official languages: bokmol and nynorsk. One is spoken by majority of the population, while other is created...

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Первый раз с вами согласен.

The description is enough to understand what it is. No families, no faith, everything is distributed by the authorities. All these utopias were described in the book I mentioned.

Ideal communism is a nightmare. I advice you to read "Socialism as a phenomenon of the world history" by I. R. Shafarevich. I'm not sure about the English title. In Russian it is called "Социализм...

Не уверен. Многие из них потом по всему миру работают.

I did not blame you for anything, you've misunderstood me. Sorry, if I offended you somehow. Communism is hell, and I'm glad it hasn't been built. I hope it won't.

Кем вы работаете, Basil? Синие воротнички, большинство бюджетных работников получает (существенно) меньше. Я не уверен, что столько получает молодой специалист в частной компании.