Poutine et la Russie

[Mathieu_D]

Et dire qu'en 1919 on aurait pu en faire une Suisse de 60 millions d'habitants...

[GilliB]

C'est quoi l'Allemagne?

Allemagne, prusse.. des casques à pointe.

[Arna]

C'est quoi l'Allemagne?

 

 

 

Le sentiment national date de 1806. De plus, l'Allemagne, comme l'Italie, n'est pas un nom qui apparaît comme ça en 1871.

[Poil à gratter]

Oui enfin la force de frappe actuelle...

Disons que les T34 sont un peu moins compétitifs qu'en quarante.

Poutine c'est un peu l'attention whore du continent, pas grand chose à voir avec l'URSS stalinienne qui pouvait affamer des dizaines de millions de personnes pour un éventuel effort de guerre.

 

Bah même avec sa force de frappe actuelle la Russie a réussi avec Bachar à libérer Palmyre, alors que la coalition se lamentait depuis quasi 1 an sur le fait que les monuments étaient détruits par l'EI et les pièces historiques revendues au marché noir (une bonne source de revenus pour l'EI). D'ailleurs notre président des français adoré est assez silencieux sur le sujet, comme sur le départ de Bachar.

 

Comme quoi ce n'est pas la taille qui compte mais la façon dont on s'en sert

[Mathieu_D]

Heu l'armée russe est crédible. (pas comme l'Urss mais crédible)

[Hayek's plosive]

 

 

Bitcoin Users Would Face Jail Under Russian Cryptocurrencies Law

2016-04-28 02:00:00.1 GMT

By Anna Andrianova

     (Bloomberg) -- Russia is planning to punish users of

cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, saying anonymous, difficult to

trace transactions help kidnappers and money launderers.

     The Finance Ministry in Moscow plans to submit legislation

next month that would punish those who use digital currencies

with fines as high as 2.5 million rubles ($38,000) and jail

sentences of up to seven years. As opponents criticize such

regulations as futile in the face of the growing popularity of

bitcoin, Russia joins countries including Bolivia, Iceland and

Vietnam in taking steps to criminalize it.

     “Bitcoin can be used to finance the shadow economy and

crimes, and this risk we cannot allow in the Russia’s financial

system, which we are striving to make transparent and healthy,”

the press service of the central bank said in an e-mail.

     Russia has struggled since the fall of the Soviet Union to

build confidence in the ruble and curb the once-common practice

of Russians demanding payment in U.S. dollars and other foreign

currencies. A decade ago, the government dropped capital

controls limiting cash outflows, and in 2014, the Bank of Russia

began to allow the ruble’s value to be set almost entirely by

the market. Last year, the central bank revoked the licenses of

34 lenders for reasons such as allegedly violating the laws

prohibiting money laundering or financing terrorism. 

     The Finance Ministry’s proposal would prohibit the issuance

of all cryptocurrencies or their use in exchange for goods and

services in Russia. Penalties would start at four years in

prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles for individuals, with the

harshest reserved for those in the management of financial

firms.

                     ‘Money Surrogate’

     “We can see how swiftly, pretty much over the course of the

year, this became a reality of our economic life,” Deputy

Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev said in an interview. Bitcoin

“in its essence is a money surrogate, so ultimately that leads

to the central bank losing control over the money supply.”

     Digital currencies like bitcoin are not controlled by any

government or central bank, and can allow users to protect their

savings against declines in national currencies and move money

across borders without the participation of banks. Bitcoin has

provided a haven for citizens of countries like Venezuela, where

access to the official exchange rate of 10 bolivars per dollar

is severely limited, creating a black market where the local

currency’s 98 percent plunge in the past three years means $1

costs about 1,100 bolivars. In Russia, the ruble has fallen

about 44 percent against the U.S. dollar since Russia annexed

Crimea from Ukraine two years ago.

     While cryptocurrencies are stoking a multi-billion dollar

underworld economy because they’re easy to transmit and largely

untraceable, the technology underlying them is also being

embraced by Wall Street and even the Bank of England as a

potential game changer in securities trading and settlement,

making cross-border payments, and regulating financial

transactions with more transparency.

     Russia also has a favorable view of blockchain, Moiseev

said, calling the technology “promising,” with “a great future.”

     Hackers are increasingly demanding ransom payments in

bitcoin, according to Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab,

which also has found that the three top origins of attacks by

hackers are China, Russia and the U.S.

     “There is a wave going of so-called ransomware when a virus

enters a person’s computer and encrypts all files and there is

no way to decrypt,” said Sergey Lozhkin, a senior researcher at

Kaspersky Lab. “Cybercriminals at that moment start extorting

money to decrypt files on the computer and they ask for ransom

in bitcoins.”

     Bitcoin accounts for more than 40 percent of criminal-to-

criminal payments in the European Union, Jan Op Gen Oorth, a

spokesman for EU law-enforcement agency Europol said in an e-

mail.

     According to Lozhkin and other experts, however, efforts to

ban bitcoin by Russian or any other country won’t work.

     “A ban would be impossible to enforce because it is a peer-

to-peer technology, it is a file sharing technology, and all

people need to do to get around the ban is to have computers

with an Internet connection,”said Jon Matonis, a founding

director of the Bitcoin Foundation, a Washington group that

promotes the cryptocurrency. “This perspective is out of step

with the rest of the world. It’s like worrying about gravity,

what can you do?”

 

[poney]

Ou sont les poutinophiles ?

[h16]

" “A ban would be impossible to enforce because it is a peer-to-peer technology, it is a file sharing technology, and all people need to do to get around the ban is to have computers with an Internet connection,”

Ben ouai.

[Adrian]

 

DEVESELU, Romania — The U.S. and NATO declared their missile interceptor system here ready for operations on Thursday while attempting to reassure Russia it is not the target.

“Missile defense is for defense,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. “It is purely defensive.”

http://www.stripes.com/news/us-certifies-missile-site-tries-to-reassure-russia-1.409218

 

[Adrian]

Deux ans de prison pour un internaute russe qui avait écrit « la Crimée, c’est l’Ukraine »
 

En Russie, mieux vaut ne pas troller sur internet.

[Tramp]

Le Monde.fr - JO de Sotchi : le président du CIO signale un « degré de criminalité sans précédent »

Thomas Bach évoque l’hypothèse d’une exclusion de la Russie des Jeux de Rio après les révélations sur le laboratoire antidopage de Sotchi 2014.

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2016/05/18/jo-de-sotchi-le-president-du-cio-pointe-un-degre-de-criminalite-sans-precedent_4921182_3242.html

[Rincevent]

Criminalité. Le dopage, de la criminalité.

[Tramp]

Il doit y avoir un terme juridique précis pour désigner quelqu'un qui triche volontairement pour se faire octroyer des gains au prejudice de l'organisateur (et des autres participants).

[Adrian]

 

Around 35 percent of Russians believe the government poses no threat to free speech and does not infringe on the activities of the independent media, according to the news website RBC, citing data from the Levada Center. 

This contrasts with a survey in 2010, when 56 percent of Russians said they perceived no threats to free speech. According to the new poll, roughly 21 percent of the country says it believes “the authorities are attacking free speech and infringing on independent media.”

According to the Levada Center, 15 percent of respondents said they are convinced that Russian television channels are subject to censorship, while 42 percent said they suspect as much. Just 20 percent deny the possibility of censorship on TV. About 60 percent of respondents stated that television is their main source of information.

More than half the country (53 percent) says Russia needs a television channel that criticizes the government without censorship.

The majority of those surveyed say they've never heard of any major scandals related to the censorship of Russian media. About 62 percent were unaware of the changes introduced to the editorial board of newspaper RBC in May 2016 and 46 percent did not know why the independent TV station Dozhd was dropped from cable packages in 2014.

Furthermore, 87 percent of respondents said they never access news information from foreign sources. Just 4 percent of Russians say they read the foreign news press or watch foreign TV broadcasts at least once a month.

 

[Rincevent]

Il y a 20 ans, certains esprits taquins (Jacques Lesourne, en l'occurrence) disaient que la France était une Union Soviétique qui avait réussi. Aujourd'hui, on peut dire que la Russie est une France qui a réussi.

[Tremendo]

Il y a 20 ans, certains esprits taquins (Jacques Lesourne, en l'occurrence) disaient que la France était une Union Soviétique qui avait réussi. Aujourd'hui, on peut dire que la Russie est une France qui a réussi.

C'est pas joli joli la croissance en ce moment là-bas tout de même

[Sanson]

Et l'espérance de vie, la situation sanitaire, sécuritaire, l'éducation, la moralité publique, la liberté de la presse, le pluralisme...

[Hayek's plosive]

C'est bien ce qu'il dit. C'est une France qui a réussi.

[Rincevent]

Et l'espérance de vie, la situation sanitaire, sécuritaire, l'éducation, la moralité publique, la liberté de la presse, le pluralisme...

Aucun intérêt, ces indicateurs. Le but, c'est que les gens restent fidèles et loyaux au pays et n'aillent surtout pas regarder ailleurs (d'où l'AFP, France Télévisions, Radio France, les subventions à la presse docile, et j'en passe). En cela, la Russie est bien une France qui a réussi.

[Tramp]

Le Monde.fr - Athlétisme : la fédération internationale suspend la Russie pour les JO de Rio

La Fédération internationale d’athlétisme (IAAF) a maintenu, vendredi, la suspension infligée à la Russie en raison de nombreux cas de dopage de ses athlètes, a annoncé la Fédération russe.

http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2016/06/17/athletisme-la-federation-internationale-suspend-la-russie-pour-les-jo-de-rio_4952960_3242.html

[Adrian]

Des agents secrets russes défèquent au domicile d'un diplomate américain
 

[Adrian]

Putin signs sweeping surveillance measures into law; Snowden declares a ‘dark day for Russia’

[NoName]

 

Des agents secrets russes défèquent au domicile d'un diplomate américain

 

 

gorafi-like

[Adrian]

Le bon lien : http://www.atlantico.fr/pepites/agents-secrets-russes-defequent-au-domicile-diplomate-americain-2748211.html#XAltd1xg3MJb9Uuj.99

[Bézoukhov]

Putin signs sweeping surveillance measures into law; Snowden declares a ‘dark day for Russia’

 

Les couilles de Snowden. Ce mec mérite tellement de médailles. Je vote pour le premier politique français qui lui offre l'asile politique en France.

[Nigel]

Le FN le proposait.

[Turgot]

Mélenchon aussi si ma mémoire est bonne. C'est un peu le choix entre le parti communiste et le parti communiste quoi. ^^

[Bourriquet]

Putin signs sweeping surveillance measures into law; Snowden declares a ‘dark day for Russia’

 

Ça me fait chaud au cœur. J'avais bien peur que Poutine instrumentalise Snowden ad nauseam et que ce dernier, en bon Américain naïf propulsé par la haine de son gouvernement, se laisse faire. Bien joué Ed !

 

(Par contre si un geste sympathique orateur envers Snowden justifie un vote FNDG...j'ai des doutes.)

[Turgot]

(Par contre si un geste sympathique orateur envers Snowden justifie un vote FNDG...j'ai des doutes.)

 

FNDG ?

[Bourriquet]

FNDG ?

 

 

La version "rebelle" de l'UMPS. Qu'est-ce qui te dérange avec ce jeu de mots ?