I must admit if I was Putin I'd have turned the taps off a week ago.
Yes, you might well have turned off the taps that bring a flood of Western money into your country.
He doesn't just GIVE the gas away, you know.
I must admit if I was Putin I'd have turned the taps off a week ago.
Yes, you might well have turned off the taps that bring a flood of Western money into your country.
He doesn't just GIVE the gas away, you know.
Don't be silly, all these windmills would show their true worthJust imagine what would happen if he did "turn off the taps" though.. Might not bother us during the summer, but,,, if this was winter, I'm sure he'd have the upper hand.
Russia is already in financial difficulties. Since Putin began his military adventures in Ukraine, capital outflows have drained billions from Russia's reserves. Western companies are unwilling to build or develop businesses in or with Russia. The value of the rouble has fallen. Tax revenues have dropped. Unemployment has risen. Economic growth has collapsed.
Russia is not eligible, because, sadly they do not meet the admittedly undemanding minimum standards of human rights, rule of law, respect for frontiers, democracy, and financial probity.
Russia is not eligible, because, sadly they do not meet the admittedly undemanding minimum standards of human rights, rule of law, respect for frontiers, democracy, and financial probity.
Russia is not eligible, because, sadly they do not meet the admittedly undemanding minimum standards of human rights, rule of law, respect for frontiers, democracy, and financial probity.
But they've been granted the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 World Cup finals......so everything must be rosy in Putin's Russia.
The Ukrainian army fired a missile into an old folks home killing five, don't these people have any protection under the Geneva convention or is it a case of well they are on the "other side"so they can be written off as collateral damage.So you think "we" should just forget about it and turn a blind eye?
I think we should learn an expensive lesson and avoid flying over war zones, even if it costs a bit more in fuel to avoid them.
You know it makes sense.
I am sure their families don't think so, and also in a serious breach of the geneva conventions, which both the russian federation and the ukraine have ratified regarding the protection of non combatants / civilians both in and around a war zone.
They obviously identified it as a foe or they would not have fired a missile at it would they the question is did they know it was a civilian aircraft.Any incident which deliberately targets an aircraft and shoots it down without first identifying it as foe ......is not a mistake.