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Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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fku linus
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This is an insult to open source. The spirit of Internet openness runs counter to it and becomes more and more politicized.
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When will Israel be removed? Is there a timetable?
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I wanna share something
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lmao
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Individuals should not pay for the actions of a country.
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Whats ur point?
Do u mean this is a historical conflicts of an axis country with another axis country's former allies, also the country destroyed the Hitler in the end?
I still cannot understand the "history knowledge" Linus believed. Trying to legitimize this act as an Axis civil war is ridiculous.
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从此刻开始 开源有国界
OPEN SOURCE HAS BORDERS
"NO" IS GONE
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Russia is Your country? Don't confuse your America with Russia.
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Я бы и рад жить в Америке, но живу в Калуге, РФ.
Я не против засрать комменты срачем с кремлеботами, всё равно это ничего не изменит.
Путина — вешать. Навальный — герой.
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I was in Russia 2 months ago, most people there( I met 500 ppl in various russian cities), they don't praise Navalny, they don't praise Putin, they just live a normal life, but you don't look like a Russian with your statements, You look like a typical American propagandist who was given a dollar for learning Russian and praising Navalny and insulting Putin. You can't live in Russia just knowing Russian languge. I know Russian very poorly and use Google translator to understand your message,to make repos on russian, to talk with russian ppl.I learnt russian 6-8 months but I still don't understand most of Russian words, can't speak with Russian ppl as if I were native speaker of Russian Lang, but my position is another. I'm neutral against Russia.I just like it's culture, It's language, it's history, but not country at all.
I'm not a bot. I don't live in Russia and my position is just another, but you'll still think that I'm a bot. Maybe you're bot? Why does another position irritate you and you start writing in Russian? What are you bragging about? Your position from somewhere in Europe, America?
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I wish Russians were as outraged by the criminal actions of their country as they are here against such a digital formality.
I can't understand how people who claim to be IT guys cannot resist those primitive techniques of Russian propaganda.
Linus Torvalds did the right thing, letting them have more time to think and understand about what is happening in their country (which affects the whole world, unfortunately).
And let them answer the question for themselves, why do Russians who hate NATO so much so actively strive to live in NATO countries and not in Russia.
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Shame on you all.
How about the massacres in Gaza?
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It's well known that Finland was part of the Axis in World War II...
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From the discussion above we can easily conclude that working for an open-source project doesn't make one's mind "open". They can spell "freedom" or "open" or "inclusive" everyday for a thousand times and be proud of it, but they don't really understand what those words mean. If removing Russians from maintainers for political reasons is justice, what about removing Jews from German? Why not just replace Linus with Hitler, at least he knows how to be a dictator and make inspiring speeches, while Linus can only sit behind his desk cursing his objectors?
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.... they just live a normal life and produce shells, attack drones and missiles.
Every night(!) these people launch dozens(!) of these drones at civilian infrastructure and houses in Ukraine, launch missiles at power plants and even a children's(!) hospital.
Yes, they live a normal life, taking money from the government and going kill people in a neighboring country.
You see, they don't need to protest against Putin, because they live great life, they are happy with everything what makes their president.
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As a resident of another country (not Russia), having visited Russia itself, I can say that your message looks more like NATO propaganda. Are there no other people besides the military? And the merits of historical Russia in ending wars mean nothing to you? Why is only the Russian president guilty for you? Why are Ukraine and its politicians not guilty of anything for you? Are you also a supporter of Navalny and his gang? Were you also paid a dollar for a comment?
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Извини меня, но уничтожение случайных стран, просто потому-что они слабее не может являться "нормальным", и те, кто индифферентен к политике, со временем за это поплатятся, как и все, кто не осмысливает существование.
Ты не нейтрален к России, ты за оккупацию независимых стран и называешь всех кто против, ботами.
Я буду предполагать, что ты не являешься ботом, потому-что в любом случае это общественная дискуссия и каждый может представить себя на твоём месте
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Не смеши, пожалуйста. У насрального не было никакой силы. Всё, что он мог сделать, это строить из себя мега угрозу некому строю и уговаривать детей ходить на митинги, чтобы потом их родителям было стыдно. Мне было смешно смотреть как в феврале все толкали идею что его убил Путин. Дааа, Путину мешает какая-то мошка без власти и силы.
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Yes, you are right.
Not only Russian president are guilty.
All Russians are gulty because they all work for the war economy and they agree with Putin.
We can't see any notable protests against Putin and war.
Not only military guys but many Russian civilians take money and weapon and go to the war.
I speak a lot with Russians. That nation is roten with imperialism.
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Прочитай пару статей в Википедии, пожалуйста, и не позорься
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You've brought out the big guns, haven't you? I'm neutral towards Russia, I just mentioned its merits in the past, I don't praise current Russia, but I don't condemn it either. I came to Russia for a month, I liked it a little from the inside, I liked the people there too, especially when one of them invited me to his house, to drink tea, eat pancakes, gave me a Tula gingerbread as a farewell.(no, everything is fine, he didn't beat me and did not judge me for my neutral views, he just kept silent and after my words the expression on his face was so peaceful that later I wanted him to come visit me, we exchanged contacts, now we are friends, we communicate via video calls, via messenger). I mention American propaganda not because my position is for Russia, I just want ppl to take into account that ordinary citizens are not to blame for what Russia does. It is impossible to hold uncoordinated rallies while observing Russian laws. From the human position of other citizens, all these rallies create a crowd during a pandemic (I heard that there is a new wave of the pandemic in Russia), secondly, the protesters simply prevent others from passing by. If this crowd accidentally crushes you during a protest when you are passing by, will you demand a compensation for this? (Now I am not talking about moral damage, but about physical, if anything)
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Позорился только насральный, ибо он только и делал, что пукал в интернете, устраивая цирк каждый лень. Самое то для детей, которые насмотревшись мультиков, решили свергнуть мнимый режим. И читать политические 24.02.2022 стало невозможно из-за тонны русофобской пропаганды и неактуальной информации.
Статья застряла в мае 2024 года, видимо потому, что писать правду запрещено.
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what a historical time.
see us in the computer educational textbooks soon :)
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In fact, under the current situation of economic globalization. Every fat pig food you eat, every marijuana you smoke, and even every prostitute you have sex with can lead to the death of ordinary people in politically hostile countries in the United States, including the euro and even the ruble. And you still have the face to pretend to be a saint here because there are currently no shell fragments that haven't popped into your mother's vagina?
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we don't need no thought control.
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I did not know that Israel already is in NATO.
And please tell us about the official currency of NATO.
What countries NATO had occupied?
While Russia's list: part of Moldova, part of Georgia, part of Ukraine.
That is imperialism.
It seems to me that you are using the word "NATO" to fill in the blanks in your knowledge of the political structure of the world.
You spread slogans 1:1 such as I hear from the Russians that they heard from their propaganda mouthpieces.
The world is not like kremlin want to show it.
If NATO is so bad, why did Russia wanted to join it?
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@torvalds do you want by any chance to pay reparations to Russia for blockade of Leningrad during WW2?
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The devil is in the dates
"On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, attempting to push the border away from Leningrad and install a pro-Soviet puppet government in the country. Soviet military leaders planned to end the war in 20 days and march on Helsinki as a birthday present to Stalin on December 21."
"THE BLOCKADE OF LENINGRAD Lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 (the blockade ring was broken on January 18, 1943)"
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And how many civilian people exactly died during that blockade? (which is officially a GENOCIDE, in case you didn't know)
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It will be called the age of Idiocracy.
btw, what happened here is HATE SPEECH .
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Does it really matter, considering that the USSR sent its own people into winter attacks regardless of heavy losses?
Does it really matter, considering that the USSR was a partner of Nazi Germany for almost 1.5 years after the beginning of World War II and participated in the occupation of Poland?
The Soviet Union, like modern Russia, was an aggressive country with imperialistic habits.
They attack their neighbors, and when they receive a significant response, they portray themselves as victims.
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Really? What countries have recognized it officially?"
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RandoMan70
I won’t refute each false claim in detail because any intelligent person knows the truth. Just open Wikipedia, and you’ll see every one of your statements fall apart.
It’s precisely because of these distortions and lies that Russia should have been removed from all international projects and organizations long ago.
Russians have had ample time and opportunity to protest the sanctions, yet they won’t protest Russia’s actions because, ultimately, they support them.
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And you, as a Russian, should read and finally understand the core principles of the Helsinki Accords of 1975.
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Perhaps there are no Nazis in the government, and there’s no pressure on the Russian language and culture?
If you weren’t aware, the president of Ukraine is Jewish.
Why should Russian culture be prioritized in Ukraine?
Russian-language schools in Ukraine only disappeared after Russia's full-scale aggression, despite Russians being a minority in the country.
In contrast, there have never been Ukrainian schools in Russia, even though millions of Ukrainians live there.
Why is that?
And why isn't there a single school with instruction in the Tatar language, even in Russian-occupied Tatarstan?
Could it be because Russia operates as a neo-Nazi state?
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I'm curious why there are more Chinese guys here than Russians?
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He didn't say "not prioritized", he said "pressured".
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So what?
Why should Russian culture have a place in Ukraine?
Why doesn’t Russia allow Tatars to study in their own language in schools?
Russian culture represents occupation.
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Maybe that's enough?
You've already made enough inaccurate statements for it to be clear that you either don't know the facts or you're being untruthful.
Can you name even one school in Tatarstan where all education is conducted in the Tatar language?
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But you can't explain why Russian culture is needed in Ukraine apart from preparation for occupation?
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Please stop.
"Russian-speaking regions" doesn’t mean they are Russian regions. Ukrainians live there—Ukrainians who were forcefully Russified by the Soviet Union.
Those Russified regions are a joke to Russia because it has completely destroyed them.
Calculate how much money Russia has spent on the war over nearly three years. If Russia truly wanted to protect the Russians living in Ukraine, it could have offered them relocation and free apartments. Instead, it has demolished homes and entire cities where Russian-speaking people once lived in large numbers.
Russia is a soulless imperialist country that seeks territory rather than the well-being of its people.
The example of Tatarstan clearly illustrates that, even in its own country, Russia denies people the right to study in their native language, continuing the Russification of all the nations from which Russia is historically composed.
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Any—just pick one
There is no school with the Tatar language of education.
Ever since Russia attacked Ukraine to seize territory under the guise of language issues, no one has been able to find a single such school in Tatarstan.
What is about "free" nations in Russia:
February 7, 1992 - the name of the Republic was changed to the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan).
On March 21, 1992, a referendum on sovereign status was held. 2/3 of the population supported sovereignty.
On March 31, 1992, Tatarstan did not sign and refused to sign the Russian Federation Treaty, as did Chechnya (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria).
On November 6, 1992, the Constitution of the Republic of Tatarstan was adopted, which declared the Republic of Tatarstan a sovereign state.
So why doesn’t Russia allow Tatars and Chechens to be independent countries? Their populations chose independence in referendums.
Do you think the Crimean referendum holds decisive importance for the annexation of Crimea? If so, why hasn’t Russia allowed other nations to pursue their desires for independence?
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What is bot rhetorics looks like.
But still, I don't care if you're bot.
In other countries for some reason protesters are not interfering enough to it considered more harmful than helpful.
For some reason in Russia it's not applicable, I suppose.
The reason is known to all people.
And he MUST DIE.
Otherwise, nothing changes
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57ar7up is right, zelensky must die
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Am I right that guys from USA are teaching Russians how to do the things?
Are you really pretending to be a single point of trust? Again, remember the cases USA killed so much people in Syria, Lebanon, Afganistan and count. Nobody protested around the world, just watched silently. And now they dare to judge, lol.
Bad things happen, but it's not the reason to bring the politics into IT. And do not mess government with the people.
Lets discuss code here, not the war. There are Reddit forums made for that kind of stuff.
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I was surprised to find that this page no longer discusses what the open-source community should be like and what we can do. Instead, it focuses on false news, politics, and wars, used to spread hatred, racism, xenophobia, and international discrimination. These are exactly what we don’t want in this community, and this is exactly what this commit aims to bring into this community.
That kind of discussions will only incite hatred, shifting people’s attention from discussing community issues to debating political topics. I even feel that this is a subtle and clever way to divert people’s attention and shift the direction of public opinion. This completely contradicts the purpose of a neutral open-source community.
For those who genuinely care about the open-source community, it may be time for the remaining core contributors to come together and express their views on this matter.
If everyone here is merely engaged in endless arguments, this issue will eventually become an established fact, and nothing will change.
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Те, кого они убили, являлись террористами, ты же не скажешь, например, что Талибан не террористы, только потому, что Россия иногда не считает их террористами?
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What a shitshow. If it's a moral or principled stance, there shouldn't be any argument -- remove everyone against whom there's any sort of objection from anyone. If the situation is more "complex" and "nuanced" and needs additional "discernment" -- remove no-one. If it's just about following orders, then either follow them or don't, but don't sugarcoat it -- that only works on children.
@mrbombus That's so-called whataboutism. If you want a free Ichkeria or Tatarstan, else Russian imperialism, you should want free DNR&LNR, else Ukrainian imperialism. If it's up to Kiev to decide how to handle rights of ethnic minorities in Ukraine, it's up to Moscow to decide how to handle rights of ethnic minorities in Russia. "Undoing" forceful Russification is forceful Ukrainization -- there's no "ideal" or "core" ethnicity, it's a dynamic multi-generational process of developing self-identity, unless you want to argue for pure Aryan race residing within the blood of certain chosen individuals -- that's fine too. If you think I'm comparing apples to oranges, that I'm not accounting for certain "important differences in interpretation" -- great -- give the same respect to the "Russian bots", take their "special pleading" at same value as you want yours to be taken. Simple.
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I’ll add one key nuance, and it’s incredibly important.
The referendums in Tatarstan and Ichkeria were held based on the genuine internal desires of their people. In contrast, the referendums in Crimea and the so-called 'Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics' (LDNR) were organized by an external force—Russia—on territories it had occupied.
Moreover, Russia claims these 'republics' cover the administrative boundaries of Ukraine’s regions, which is ironic, especially given Russia has been trying to capture them for three years now.
The so-called 'referendums' didn’t even occur in most of these imaginary republics’ territories.
Tatars and Chechens are distinct peoples with unique identities, whereas there is no such thing as a Crimean, Donetsk, or Luhansk ethnicity.
These situations are incomparable.
Ukraine, after all, is a monoethnic, unitary state."
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The presence of foreign troops has no bearing on the legitimacy of a referendum or people's vote, since the question being posed is as you correctly noted the genuine expression of people's choice. Elections in post-invasion Iraq or Germany, for example, where American troops are still present. Do the referendums in DNR&LNR or Crimea accurately reflect the "genuine internal desires of their people" -- who decides? You? Suppose Russia cedes control of these regions back to Ukraine tomorrow, have you read any proposals for how Ukraine intends to re-integrate them? Proposals on what to do with, what, 6 million ex-Ukrainian holders of Russian passports and citizenship? It doesn't sound like the Ukrainian leadership agrees with your interpretation that people in Crimea or Eastern Ukraine are being "forced" to do anything. Sounds more like Kiev wants control of the territory, preferably without the people. They had 8 years, 2 presidents, however many rada deputees, to federalize, guarantee new referendums on their own terms, but self-determination in the East not a big priority, and any concession would cede legitimacy to the initial uprising. It's an understandable position, no?
Says who, you? You're going to deny people the right to define their own ethnicity? Based on what? Do you know how many different distinct subgroups of Tatars there are in Russia alone? Do you think they're all related or want to live together or something? Laugh And Chechens, go there and preach Wahhabism, see if they will like it or if they call you shaitan. Shuran Ichkeria wanted to incorporate Dagestan and Ingushetia without bothering to ask the people living there -- did they figure out a super-Chechen ethnicity? Are Dagestanis and Ingush fake too, like East Ukrainian subgroups? Ethnicity is divisible and new groups always manifest during conflicts of interest, or do you think Russia and Ukraine both being Slavic peoples are the same? Why not, same ethnicity right? No? Then at what level do you say "stop" and who decides where to draw that line?
No situation is comparable to another if all you do is gaslight your interlocutor. When you're engaging in an honest and open-minded discussion, there are parallels to be found in all situations. Comparing apples to oranges is perfectly reasonable, they're both fruits, they're both round.
Only an insulated backwater can be monoethnic. Maybe their elites would like it to be so, or at least have that narrative for purposes of manufacturing national identity, but Ukraine has always had significant minority populations, which makes sense since the state has been historically assembled from various parts of different countries. Poles, Hungarians, Rusyns, Russians, Tatars, Roma. And is situated on a territory that was the crossroads for movement of all kinds of people over thousands of years.
Plenty of people are conditionally Ukrainian first, until they feel their rights being violated by the central government. They even say the president is Jewish -- so either Ukraine is a monoethnic Jewish state, or he's not Ukrainian. If he's both Jewish and Ukrainian, it's not monoethnic.
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Seriously? How can a person vote freely with an occupying army present? Can you name any law that would have allowed Russia to hold a referendum in Crimea?
Do you think it’s a coincidence that no country in the world has recognized Crimea as Russian territory?
Quite simply, all that’s needed is to follow the legal procedure. Without a law, there’s no procedure—and no legitimacy for the actions taken.
It’s clear that holding a Russian passport in Crimea and eastern Ukraine is a matter of survival. Reintegration won’t be an issue.
We can look at the population census of Crimea, for instance. There was no new ethnic group seeking independence—the majority are Ukrainians, Russians, and Crimean Tatars.
The same holds true for eastern Ukraine. Can you point out any meaningful ethnic difference between the people of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine?
No, you can’t compare a referendum initiated internally by a distinct nation with one initiated externally for a specific territory. It’s like comparing red to warm.
All these ethnic groups together make up a maximum of 22% of the population, scattered throughout the country. While Ukraine may not be strictly mono-ethnic, it is close to being one. And what is important, Ukraine is the country of the Ukrainian people.
Can it be said about Russia and the Russians? I'm not sure.
If they believe they need self-determination, they should seek to establish their own republic within Russia and build their national identity there.
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You tell me, seeing as you believe "the referendums in Tatarstan and Ichkeria were held based on the genuine internal desires of their people" on the territory of the Russian Federation, with the presence of Russian troops who, if these referendums represent genuine desires of these populations, should be defined as occupiers and yet did not prevent people from voicing their genuine desires. What changed? Or were they illegitimate too?
Then, moving the goalposts along, whose legality are we concerned with? And when does legality trump self-determination -- do we reject people's right to self-determination for adherence to protocol and formalism? Did Russia hold a referendum in Crimea or did they provide the necessary protection for Crimeans to realize their right to self-determination in accordance with R2P? Can you think of any reason other than principle why formal recognition of Crimea as Russian may be detrimental to the entities declaring it as such -- for example, why several Russian banks and mobile providers waited until their assets abroad had been seized before they started operating in Crimea, while some continue to maintain a "flexible" stance. Same with state entities, where only the one's already sanctioned to hell and with nothing to lose are free to consider formal declarations, otherwise it's just trading words for increased US+satellite pressure for no benefit.
Crimeans themselves are fully capable of deciding what procedure to follow and the only law that really matters in whether that procedure is compatible or not is Russian law. Has Russia been able to successfully integrate Crimea into its federation? What, you think there are internal problems of some kind? If there's no alternative in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, no way of holding an internationally recognized referendum, or the alternatives do exist in theory but their practical application is suppressed, then there's no right to self-determination, is there? Recent Crimean history is a series of referendums being held "illegally", then annulled by the central authority in Kiev.
I like how you glance over reintegration. The proposed solutions floated by Ukrainian spokespeople so far have revolved around internment and deportation of holders of Russian passports, sounds really neat and simple.
The "new" ethnic group is Crimeans separate from Ukraine, whether they be of Russian, Ukrainian or Tatar origin. If you want meaningful differences, ask the people living there, or in Eastern Ukraine, whether they see themselves as somehow different from Kiev residents or, for that matter, Western Ukrainians, but it's important to define the question as either one of blood or politics. Russians, for the most part, still consider Ukrainians as being Russian by blood, but obviously no longer in terms of national identity. For the same reason, it should be self-evident that Crimeans and DNR&LNR are ethnically distinct from the rest of Ukraine, due to the emerging political ethnicity, in much the same vein that the overarching ethnicity of a multi-ethnic USSR was a political one, the new soviet man. Consider, are African-Americans just Africans or a separate ethnicity? Are you studying people's genes or their identities in how they relate to one another?
The only difference is one of narrative and perspective. What is a distinct nation before a referendum is held? A group of people, subjects to another power. What is a referendum initiated externally? Inspired, supported, facilitated by a foreign power? What is a territory, if not a state before it has been established? The declaration of independence by a British colony, allying with another great European power, i.e France -- what's the problem? Oh, did the French benefit from the Brits losing their colonial holdings? Did the insurrectionists rely on foreign support, secure guarantees of assistance beforehand in order to make their goals attainable? The only time that self-determination doesn't follow this pattern is when the central government is in such a weakened state that it cannot put up any meaningful resistance to secession, while in all other cases the involvement of an external power to tip the scales is the norm. Otherwise, secession will be suppressed by the central government, as a rule, however genuine the desire of the populace involved in it, and sometimes foreign involvement isn't enough to prevent that either. Now, what are we after here? For people to have the ability to determine their own path, or for an ideal world where every time you open your mouth, a tasty treat materializes on your tongue? Are you willing to make the former impossible because the latter is inherently impossible?
Okay, so 1/4'th of the population identifies more strongly with a distinct ethnic minority, culturally, genetically, linguistically, whatever. Now take the number of Ukrainians who were asked to fight to preserve their political identity, what it means to be Ukrainian since 2014 -- how many of them want to become permanent residents in Europe or Russia, whichever way they fled when the fighting started? We're talking what, 10 million or so people, give or take? How many of those who stayed are willing to cede territory to end the conflict on Russian terms, give up on the idea of reconstituting Ukraine within its former borders? What about those who would rather see Ukraine burn to the ground rather than give one inch, a wish they might get? Can you think of a way for this conflict to develop where these two groups will peacefully coexist and draw the third group back into their fold? Which Ukrainian identity will be the dominant one?
Politically, Ukraine hasn't had a unified vision since it became independent. Being Ukrainian meant staying quiet between two extremes of development, Ru-reintegration or Western navel-gazing, then avoiding an ethno-natonalist extreme post-Maidan, where displaying too much nuanced thinking could be detrimental to your health. Most people, just as in Russia, want to be apolitical, to have their ethnicity come from cultural and familial ties, but now in both countries, due to emergence of Eastern Ukrainian separatists and subsequent developments, the political identity trumps blood. Russia is plausibly more multi-ethnic than Ukraine, but it's potentially more mono-ethnic in terms of political identity and manifest destiny.
No they shouldn't. Their homes don't belong to the central authority in Kiev. So a better way of saying it is, yes, that's what they are doing, and they are taking their land and property with them.
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There is a big difference.
If you didn't understand the first time, in Tatarstan and Ichkeria the referendum was held by a separate PEOPLE, and in Crimea by the Russian occupation army, which in order to announce a "referendum" forcibly seized the parliament of the autonomous republic of Crimea as part of Ukraine and "held" it without the law and official international observers.
What self-determination are you talking about?
This right concerns the people, not the population.
"Self-determination" of which people was in Crimea?
That is not about help by occupation.
That is why no country in the world recognizes Russia's right to Crimea.
If you don’t answer the question above, then I see no point in continuing this dialogue. Leave your propaganda and twisting of facts to yourself.
My main point is that Russia repeatedly violates international laws and treaties, wages aggressive war, and commits war crimes—all without any response from its people, who instead actively participate. Therefore, they bear responsibility.
And the excluded participants worked for Russian companies that are under sanctions, so I fully support this decision and call on the entire global IT community to follow this example.
The more sanctions there are against Russia and its population, the faster there will be peace and tranquility in Europe.
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"A separate people" did no such thing, you're talking about political factions in both cases. You seem to think Tatars are an ethnic group that held a referendum, when it's is a catch-all term for like a dozen different ethnic groups all living in different places. Chechens, meanwhile, instantly split into different political and religious identities and started war among themselves. Referendums don't sprout from the ground, they are a product of political organization.
Meanwhile, in Crimea, the referendum was organized by the Crimean parliament, not the Russian army. Protection of government buildings is of paramount importance when re-establishing order. Entry or activation of Russian troops was preceded by popular grassroots movement. Reshuffling of parliament is to be expected, pales in comparison to the post-Maidan "transitional" government forcefully disbanding the two largest parties in the country. Crimea not having international recognition for its independence tried but failed to invite international observers, only people from "fringe" movements with no political power attended and, oftentimes, were punished for doing so in their home countries, having "legitimized" the process with their presence, or crossed into Crimea "illegally" via Russia, which was the only way of doing so anyway. There were intentional efforts to undermine the legitimacy of any potential referendum, legalism being the simplest vector of attack -- but, how many people have you heard question whether the result, Russian Crimea, actually corresponds to the desire of the people living on Crimea? Again, what is the goal here, to give people a voice, ability to change their group's political trajectory, or adherence to a certain format, particularly when the latter is intentionally being made impossible from without?
Of Crimean people, what kind of question is that? And don't tell me there's "no such thing" -- it sounds like you've gotten the false impression that a "people" is defined like some animal subspecies, maybe it needs an entry in a book of skull-measurements or something? For self-determination, it is the determination by "the people of a territorial unit" of their own future political status. If there are human entities living on a piece of land of any size, they have the right to self-determination according to international law, their government is obligated to provide them such opportunity in "sufficient enough" capacity to placate them, and if it does not they have every right to choose a government for themselves that will. No, they don't need to register officially as a separate culture or phenotype, political identity is more than sufficient.
It can be. The Ukrainian state has responsibility to protect its own citizen's rights. When it fails to do so, all other states in the world have a moral, non-binding obligation to intervene to ensure that these rights are protected. After ATO, it should be pretty obvious what Kiev's response to a Crimean referendum would be without military intervention and protection.
Not strictly speaking true either, but do you think self-determination hinges on having international recognition?
The questions you posed you very well could have answered yourself. Since you have been cherry-picking in your responses, I assume that you silently agree with all the other "propaganda and twisting of facts" that I have presented. Take care.
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I am disappointed in humanity. And in the Open Source community, as well.
Politics simply ruin everything, don't they?
It's like living in some dystopia.
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Linus forgot that people of a country != the government of the country. Fine then, if I'll ever contribute to Linux, I won't be bending around with Tor and VPNs to submit my commits, if you don't want them, I will not send back my improvements to your projects that I spent my free time on to get nothing in return. Fuck you, Linus.