Thought there was another Russia thread... But what I wanted to post has nothing to do with "India and Russia", but E Europe and former USSR nations.
Let's bring in India by inserting an off-topic (and off-forum) item first.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8Yui1PmTs&feature=relmfu[/media]
where the Russian Vera Brezhneva and the Romanian Balan sing together: despite being duet (yes, I too tend to cringe in anticipation whenever I heard the word) it's in Russian which, being a beautiful language and great to sing in, balances it out. And the forced tie-in with India is that Vera Brezhneva is like the Russian version of [color="#0000FF"]Priyanka Chopra[/color] (ok, from the little I've seen of PC), which is clearest in this video-clip (though elsewhere she had a few brief moments looking a lot like Aishwarya Rai). Plus she does a nice headflick-and-rebound thereafter, no doubt familiar to [color="#0000FF"]bollywho fans[/color]. And IIRC, Vera also did a video-clip in .... oh dear was it [color="#0000FF"]Nepal[/color]? <- See. It's all "very relevant" to India.
Anyway (now that I've scared off any serious people :hehehe
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[color="#0000FF"]The actual news:[/color]
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10756794
Good for them.
Russia has lots of moolah and resources/wealth, it has lots of potential and promise (and doesn't squander it), has manpower. Like E Europe, it has brains, talent, creativity, genius. And if they play their cards right - or even market themselves well* (they certainly consistently look better than the W-European colonies; they should *use* it) - the countries historically connected to them or who otherwise have some shared history - either through ethnicity by being Slavic or through European orthodox christianism - will naturally want to join.
[* I mean, consider the power of bollywho: how there are scary TSP-ers arguing for TSP to "rejoin" with India because of the supposed "shared composite culture" of bollywho (wasn't it Tasleema Nasrin's rebellious Pakistani son - still an islamic but his "rebellion" is that he is a bollywho fan - who threatened something of this nature: "look, we can peacefully intermarry with the kaffiri women bollywho-style and bring them into islam that way"). In contrast, the nations formerly allied to Russia don't have islamania to fear from the prospect of close cooperation, the way Dharmics of the Indian subcontinent have to from even the more "secular" TSPers looking India's way.
Wassn't bollywho called the "softpower" of secularism and christoislamism?
Such things need not always be means given over to subversionists. In Russia's case at least, these things can be harnassed for productive purposes: Russia should project their own softpower.]
Let's bring in India by inserting an off-topic (and off-forum) item first.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8Yui1PmTs&feature=relmfu[/media]
where the Russian Vera Brezhneva and the Romanian Balan sing together: despite being duet (yes, I too tend to cringe in anticipation whenever I heard the word) it's in Russian which, being a beautiful language and great to sing in, balances it out. And the forced tie-in with India is that Vera Brezhneva is like the Russian version of [color="#0000FF"]Priyanka Chopra[/color] (ok, from the little I've seen of PC), which is clearest in this video-clip (though elsewhere she had a few brief moments looking a lot like Aishwarya Rai). Plus she does a nice headflick-and-rebound thereafter, no doubt familiar to [color="#0000FF"]bollywho fans[/color]. And IIRC, Vera also did a video-clip in .... oh dear was it [color="#0000FF"]Nepal[/color]? <- See. It's all "very relevant" to India.
Anyway (now that I've scared off any serious people :hehehe
-[color="#0000FF"]The actual news:[/color]
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10756794
Quote:Putin says new 'Eurasion Union' idea is no USSR
By Andrea Warmington
7:01 PM Wednesday Oct 5, 2011
[photo caption:]Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Photo / AP
In what is sure to be seen as a bid to rebuild the Soviet Union, [color="#0000FF"]Vladimir Putin has floated the idea of a "Eurasion Union".
Putin, who recently announced he will be running for president, said the union - made up of former Soviet states - would be similar to the European Union.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan were already going ahead with economic integration and will introduce unified market rules and regulations at the start of 2012, according to the Russian Prime Minister.
But Putin quickly deflected suggestions the union would be an attempt to rebuild the USSR.
"There is no talk about rebuilding the USSR in one way or another," he told a Russian newspaper.
"It would be naive to try to restore or copy something that belongs to the past, but a close integration based on new values and economic and political foundation is a demand of the present time."
Putin said the Eurasion Union would instead "build on the experience of the European Union and other regional coalitions".
He believes this would "create real conditions to change the geopolitical and geoeconomic configuration of the entire continent and have an undoubtedly positive global effect".[/color]
Although Russia has called for more co-operation with ex-Soviet states in the past, many of these countries have remained suspicious of Moscow's intentions.
By Andrea Warmington
Good for them.
Russia has lots of moolah and resources/wealth, it has lots of potential and promise (and doesn't squander it), has manpower. Like E Europe, it has brains, talent, creativity, genius. And if they play their cards right - or even market themselves well* (they certainly consistently look better than the W-European colonies; they should *use* it) - the countries historically connected to them or who otherwise have some shared history - either through ethnicity by being Slavic or through European orthodox christianism - will naturally want to join.
[* I mean, consider the power of bollywho: how there are scary TSP-ers arguing for TSP to "rejoin" with India because of the supposed "shared composite culture" of bollywho (wasn't it Tasleema Nasrin's rebellious Pakistani son - still an islamic but his "rebellion" is that he is a bollywho fan - who threatened something of this nature: "look, we can peacefully intermarry with the kaffiri women bollywho-style and bring them into islam that way"). In contrast, the nations formerly allied to Russia don't have islamania to fear from the prospect of close cooperation, the way Dharmics of the Indian subcontinent have to from even the more "secular" TSPers looking India's way.
Wassn't bollywho called the "softpower" of secularism and christoislamism?
Such things need not always be means given over to subversionists. In Russia's case at least, these things can be harnassed for productive purposes: Russia should project their own softpower.]