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FirebrandRoaring  ·  2431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Putin won. Whooda thought

    парин

Парень? Use человек if you want to say "guy". "some random guy" would be случайный человек or человек с улицы.

    I did hear one of your fellow citizens interviewed on NPR a couple days ago who disputed the premise that the elections weren't fair or that free speech was being eroded

Nationalism would do that to you. Some people here actually believe that Trump is good because he's Russian ally and that Crimea "belongs to" Russia.

It's unsettling just how much this country's political system sucks.

(What's even more unsettling is that I almost engage in whataboutism by going "Yeah, but which country's doesn't?" I bet I could come up with a few examples of those that have many fewer troubles)