Exodus of IT specialists in Russia

originally posted by: Freeborn

Your claims that Russians moving to 'western' countries would be met with rampant Russophobia is based on nothing but your own acute paranoia and as such is absolute bollocks.

Russians Around the World Are Facing Abuse and Harassment Amid the Ukraine Conflict

MARCH 10, 2022

Ike Gazaryan’s wife, Yulia, typically answers the phone for their San Diego, Calif. restaurant, Pushkin Russian Restaurant, which serves food from former Soviet republics. But after Russia invaded Ukraine, Gazaryan decided to answer it himself. In the week after the war began, he says, the restaurant received about 15 to 20 abusive phone calls.

He didn’t pay much attention to the first few calls, which he attributed to kids messing around, but then some of the calls seemed to threaten violence. “We started getting more serious calls, with people yelling and screaming at us,” says Gazaryan, who is ethnically Armenian but has lived in Russia. “As if we have something to do with this war, blaming us for what the Putin regime is doing. We had people calling, saying, they’re going to blow sh-t up.”
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In other cases, the rhetoric has been more clearly discriminatory, such as member of Congress Eric Swalwell arguing for “kicking every Russian student out of the United States” and British lawmaker Roger Gale arguing that all Russians living in the country should be “sent home.”

Some attacks on Russians and others perceived to be Russian, have been criminal. A Russian Orthodox Church in Calgary, Canada was splattered with red paint on Feb. 26. In Washington, D.C., vandals smashed windows, broke a door, and left behind “bias-related” signs at the Russia House Restaurant and Lounge. And in Dublin, a truck crashed through the gate of the Russian embassy.

The attacks appear to indiscriminately target those from the Russian-speaking diaspora. German broadcaster DW reported that the Russian owner of a Russian language school said her colleagues and students had received abuse and harassment, adding that a local museum initially canceled a performance by her students “for political reasons.” In Vancouver, a Russian community center was splattered with blue and yellow paint, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. And in Columbus, Ohio, Diana Deli—which is owned by both a Russian and a Ukrainian–has reported receiving threatening phone calls.
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Harassment has also extended to some of the most visible Russians in the U.S. and Canada: professional hockey players. Dan Milstein is a National Hockey League Players’ Association-certified agent who works with more than 40 clients from Russia and Belarus, such as Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Milstein says that his clients in both the U.S. and Canada have told him they have experienced harassment. For instance, says Milstein, one athlete was approached by a stranger on the street and told to “pack his bags and go back to effing Russia.” Some athletes have asked for extra security for their wives and children, who have also been subjected to harassment, says Milstein.
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Amid such discord, some owners of Russian-themed businesses remain hopeful that they can help to bridge the divisions, while avoiding some of the negative connotations. It was in this spirit that the owners of Taste of Russia, a store in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn selling food from the former Soviet Republics, decided to change its name and to get rid of a sign featuring Red Square’s St. Basil’s Cathedral, says co-owner Alena Rakhman. Following the invasion, a number of customers approached the owners to ask them to change the name, she says.
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Or Armenians.

a reply to: alldaylong

originally posted by: glen200376
The daily propaganda post from your Ukraine loving(or is that Russia hating?)poster.
Did that number come from the top of your head?
Talk about the emotional, feelings poster of the day,every day for the last month.

Just as much active pro russian members who make a bunch of pro russia threads everyday.

gotta take it up with the owners if you only want pro russian threads.

a reply to: Freeborn

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, April 6, 2022

6 April 2022 19:58

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Western campaign to cancel Russian culture

The West has horrified itself by launching a campaign to cancel Russian culture, which has taken very strange forms indeed. This is not righteous indignation but a feeling they are trying to inspire in people. It is being done by “professionals.” Take a statement made by Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Glinski, who said that “Russian culture must disappear from the public space.” Who are you, Mr Glinski, to say things like that? Who has given you the right to say this? It would take more than a billion years to thoroughly study the subject he wants to cancel. He is not even aware of the boundaries of Russian culture. How can people in charge of culture speak about cancelling the culture of entire nations? On the other hand, this has happened before, in the 1930s and 1940s, and this is exactly what we are fighting against now.

Here is another thing that is stranger than fiction but turned out to be true in the 21st century. The National Gallery in London has altered the title of French impressionist Edgar Degas’ drawing Russian Dancers. They are no longer Russian now. Such things happen. They have become normal in the West, where a man wakes up one morning to declare that he is a woman. And next day s/he can become a non-binary person. You can also change nationality, as in the case of Degas’ painting, especially since he died long ago. And they have done it. It’s only a name, you don’t have to request a new ID or have a sex reassignment surgery. You just cross out the name. They cancelled history long ago. They were tearing down monuments across Europe so that their children don’t ask their mother and father, or rather Parent A and Parent B, about monuments to soldiers in red star caps. Culture must be cancelled to eradicate any link to history.

The names of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff have been removed from concert bills in several countries. The Netherlands has cancelled the tour of the Anatoly Kvasov State Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of Don Cossacks. This will definitely make life better in the Netherlands.

They are banning Russian writers and their books. The University of Milano-Bicocca has cancelled a series of four lectures about Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which were to be delivered by writer Paolo Nori, so as “not to cause polemic” and, of course, to avoid any questions. There can be no disputes in the state described by George Orwell, nothing but the truth. The Italian university’s decision was reversed the following morning, but the precedent has been created. Teatro Rina e Gilberto Govi in Genoa has cancelled the annual Dostoyevsky festival, and it has not changed its decision. I urge you to re-read Dostoyevsky’s Demons, which is about what we see happening today. It is a unique, a truly immortal novel. You can cancel it, but this won’t make it disappear.

We note with regret that Russophobia is rapidly gaining ground in the West, and that the unthinkable measures being taken there are destroying the fundamental principles of civilised behaviour. The aggressive promotion of “cancel culture” is turning into the cancellation of culture and is fraught with a complete loss of one’s bearings in the contemporary world. You cannot say now who you are dealing with, a man, a woman, or a non-binary person and which sex that person prefers to be at this time of the day. It is difficult to say who wrote or painted what, because the name can be changed overnight. It is difficult to see the difference between the truth and lies. What happened in our history? Monuments are destroyed, museums are closed, and history textbooks are rewritten. It is no longer clear who attacked who, but not because there are no factual data but because the dates, directions, figures and geography have been changed. Everything has been changed. What do you want from people? Do you want them to lose any touch with reality? Public ostracism, the cancellation and banning of facts and names is a path towards self-destruction.

We know about the Western attempts to “cancel” the Red Army’ contribution to defeating Nazism during World War II. We have been speaking about this every week for the past decades. This is happening right now. The Russian flag has not been raised at the Karlshorst Museum in Germany, where the Nazis signed the official act of surrender in 1945, and the building’s official name plaque – the German-Russian Museum – has been obscured with black tape. What is that place dedicated to? Who was there? Tell me now, who liberated who? Did the West Germans liberate the East Germans? What is the new version?

This “cultural” mayhem, or rather “uncultured Sabbath”, increasingly reminds me of medieval obscurantism, when it was not barbarism or pagan rites but Christianity and the New Testament with its compassion to thy neighbour which offered the Holy Inquisition the rationale for burning books. Why not throw people into the same fire, while they were at it? Doesn’t this remind you of anything? They were guided by good intentions and knew how to motivate people. World War II also started with high ideals, by telling our ancestors how to live, who is “pure” and who is not, which race has a greater right to exist than another one. The analogy with the Nazi campaign in Germany to destroy undesirable books is even more terrifying. The same campaign has been carried out in Ukraine year after year with all kinds of books perishing in the fire: history books, ethnic and cultural literature, religious and children’s books. They even banned cookbooks. Why? Because they did not want to share the borsch beetroot soup with anyone. Only one nation, one ethnic group could own it. There was no way they could share it with others, so that housewives could cook it their own way in every town and region. They did not want to compromise. This is precisely what we are talking about: xenophobia, Nazism and extremism in all their forms.

As part of the cancel culture, we have been facing attempts to black out specific cultures from the public space to give way to others. This has happened quite a few times in European and American history. Sometimes they do this simply to glorify something, and not necessarily against our country. This is what they do, in general. China has been treated this way a couple of years ago when it faced accusations of creating the coronavirus, as if it all came from a bat. This did not work out, but China still suffered a lot from this campaign. Sinophobia became the talk of the town, especially in the United States. Before that, there were attempts to cancel other countries. In the early 2000s, there were attempts to cancel French culture when Paris refused to support Washington in its campaign against Iraq. It went as far as attempts to stop selling French fries because the name referred to France. I am not even mentioning films, etc. This is how it happened: not a single talk show would spare the French for their principled position, which turned out to be the right one. At the time, the French leadership had the determination and independence to look and the facts and realise what is true, and what is a lie.


to be continued

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, April 6, 2022

6 April 2022 19:58

This cancel culture dates back decades, centuries, and even more. This may not be a direct analogy, by the ancient Romans introduced the term Damnatio memoriae, which stands for “condemnation of memory.” When a person died, he had to be removed from the public memory, forgotten. This did not happen naturally. Instead, the Romans went to great lengths to erase all traces of the person subject to this procedure. Interpretations may vary, but the facts are there.

The colonial powers of Europe and America sought to black out all references to ethnicity in their protectorates and destroyed dozens of invaluable cultural heritage artefacts in the process. Michel Foucault would use the term “cultural imperialism” to refer to these ugly practices. Entire societies became subaltern social groups. Researchers of colonialism like Antonio Gramsci and Gayatri Spivak taught that the cultural footprint left by these societies remained invisible for the mainstream culture with the West knowingly maintaining this status quo.

The Third Reich masterminds reached unreachable heights in the 1930s (unreachable until recently, since new heights, or rather new lows, have now been reached) when they removed all references to the way Jewish scientists and art figures contributed to Germany’s development and culture, as if these people never existed. It all starts in the beginning, by highlighting the achievements of just a single ethnic group or a few chosen races. Other races also existed, but this does not matter.

This phenomenon was aestheticised and adopted at the highest level. They called it the “cultural aryanisation.” There was a programme, tenets, ideologists and those who implemented this concept and oversaw compliance.

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, there was this witch-hunt against communism for rooting out everything “communist” in the United States – the infamous McCarthyism. The ideology has not changed. There is now cancel culture and a new cultural genocide. This time it targets everything related to the great Russian heritage without sparing anything. There is nothing new about this. The West has been suffering from this malady for ages.

It would be impossible to imagine something of this kind happening in our country. For centuries, the Russian masters of literature, music and fine arts created their masterpieces for humanity as a whole and served as moral and spiritual beacons for entire generations, enriching the world culture. At the same time, Russia has always appreciated and promoted works by foreign artists regardless of the relations it had with their countries of origin. The year 1812 is quite telling in this regard. Just reread War and Peace. Quite impressive, isn’t it? We believe that culture must remain in a league of its own. This is our heritage, a well of pure drinking water enabling humanity to preserve itself. It helped promote people-to-people ties at all times and facilitate dialogue, find common ground, mutual understanding, and simply survive.

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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, April 13, 2022

13 April 2022 20:14

Renaming Russian fortress in Hawaii

We regret that the anti-Russia campaign unleashed in the United States has affected the common historical heritage of our countries.

In the spirit of the cancel culture that has taken hold in the West, the American authorities, who just recently destroyed monuments to historical figures, including even the founding fathers, at the demand of the “progressive liberal public,” are now engaged in eradicating references to Russia, renaming streets and historical sites.

How did this happen? Does history exist or not? Or did the past happen without leaving any historical record? Is it alive or not? Please explain this to me. It is impossible to understand. Is this "account closed" or can you go back to the past time and time again, change what you don’t like and then come back to the present? How do you deal with all this: with the destruction of monuments, renaming of streets, everything the entire international community has lived with for many years, admired and paid tribute to? It all disappeared in a whiff, as if it had never happened, but not because something new has come in its stead. Simply because they need to get rid of it. The main thing is that no trace is left of that past.

This is what happened to the Russian Fort Elizabeth, which was built on the Hawaiian island of Kauai by the Russian-American Company in 1816. The local legislative authority decided that it should now be called Pa’ula’ula, which stands for "Red Walls" in Hawaiian.

Though they say there was a public discussion, no one was interested in the opinion of our compatriots and professional historians. The document must still be approved by the governor, but the state administration has already ordered signs with the new name without waiting for the formalities to be completed.

We can only guess at where the anti-Russia campaign promoted by Washington will go. However, we hope that common sense and awareness of the futility of any attempts to “cancel” Russia, which is simply impossible, will prevail sooner or later, and sanity will gain the upper hand.

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The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia)

April 11, 2022 20:20

The decision of the European Commission to include Russian airlines in the so-called "black list" of the EU will not affect the safety of our carriers.

This decision of the EU testifies to the continuation of the ongoing policy of unilateral unfriendly measures that violate the provisions of the Chicago Convention and bilateral agreements, and only confirms the further desire of Europe to strengthen the "air blockade" of the Russian Federation.

The aforementioned restrictive measures against Russian airlines were taken in absentia and do not have any grounds related to the technical condition of the aircraft fleet of Russian air carriers, maintaining the airworthiness of these aircraft, or executing leasing transactions.

Russian airlines included in the so-called "black list" have all the necessary on-board documentation approved by the authorized body in the field of civil aviation of the Russian Federation. All aircraft comply with airworthiness standards, undergo regular maintenance within the time limits established by the maintenance program.

Airworthiness certificates for aircraft are issued by the Federal Air Transport Agency in accordance with federal aviation regulations and documents individually drawn up for each aircraft, certifying its ability to safely fly and technically operate.

The issue of safe operation of aircraft is the main priority of the Aviation Authorities of Russia. Approval of airworthiness certificates is carried out in strict accordance with the norms of international and national air law.

The decision to include a number of Russian airlines certified by the Federal Air Transport Agency in the so-called "black list" of the EU indicates the ongoing policy of discrimination and violation of the provisions of international aviation law, which will inevitably lead to retaliatory measures from the aviation authorities of the Russian Federation in relation to the airlines of states EU members.

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a reply to: turretless

She's very wrong about Russian airlines. They ended up stealing planes airlines lease planes from manufacturers and in exchange receive certified parts and technicians to install them. Without certified parts, Russia will be forced to cannibalize aircraft to maintain its fleet. These will not be new parts and even worse will already have flight hours on them. If they fly outside of Russia they risk being repossessed by the owners. They also have no way to certify the aircraft flightworthy in the first place. So in 6 months, you couldn't pay me to ride on a Russian airplane.

originally posted by: dollukka
a reply to: turretless

What is happening now in Russia and Ukraine is not fault of the common citizens, they did not choose that they are victims too.

You might say that but the Western world in general don't feel like this thats why Russian stores, businesses, churches all over North America are being vandalized and smashed up

I feel real sorry for any Russian children who have to go grow up in the US/Canada these days, it's gonna be worse then what many Russian kids had to go through growing up in the US in the 70s and 80s.

originally posted by: MisguidedAngel

originally posted by: dollukka
a reply to: turretless

What is happening now in Russia and Ukraine is not fault of the common citizens, they did not choose that they are victims too.

You might say that but the Western world in general don't feel like this thats why Russian stores, businesses, churches all over North America are being vandalized and smashed up

As being one of those Russian children who grew up in the US ill say they will be fine. Nationality isn't really a thing in the states no one cares where you came from and the average American couldn't tell a Russian from a german. You would not elieve how often I had people think I spoke German and truly didnt understand Russian is completely diferent.

originally posted by: MindBodySpiritComplex
a reply to: dollukka

ruble is worth of nothing

Putin May Collect $321 Billion Windfall If Oil and Gas Keep Flowing

I thought the sanctions were having an effect, which is why Poor Standard downgraded Russia's credit rating to junk.

originally posted by: MisguidedAngel
I feel real sorry for any Russian children who have to go grow up in the US/Canada these days, it's gonna be worse then what many Russian kids had to go through growing up in the US in the 70s and 80s.

Japanese kids were thrown in the child's gulag after Japan bombed the U.S..

"Russian-speaking children ‘being bullied’ in schools" - www.thetimes.co.uk...

Through this video, we (thanks to Lexus & Vovan) have the opportunity to see how the system of persecution for political views in the West works from the inside.


Prank with the Managing Director of the Bavarian Opera Serge Dorny

Prankers Vovan and Lexus called the managing director of the Bavarian Opera - Serge Dorny on behalf of the "Minister of Culture of Ukraine". What Serge Dorny told the «minister» about and how he likes to cancel Russian cultural figures - see in the video.

Video prank with writer JK Rowling

Pranksters Vovan and Lexus spoke on behalf of the "President of Ukraine" with British writer JK Rowling.

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a reply to: dollukka
Whose estimate? the media's?

originally posted by: turretless
"Russian-speaking children ‘being bullied’ in schools" - www.thetimes.co.uk...

This is what the media wanted and its how they did agaisnt another slav nation during the 90s. The fueling of hate to bring hate towards other.

I had seen terrible comments on twitter towards the Russian people how some users had expressed zero empathy should anything happen to Russian people.


This is the result of the Mainstream News Media warfare propaganda.

a reply to: vNex92

I do not think that the media is a source of Russophobia.

The media is only a tool in the hands of more powerful people.