Disappointment, summarises the feeling. A country so full of unique perspectives, amazing engineers, thoughtful writers, hasn't made the huge positive impact on the world I think we in Europe all hoped for when the soviet order started to collapse. Instead it has crept back into itself and reverted to a statist controlled Orwellian bloc. I have watched several hours of RT here in Europe out of curiosity and the double-speak and message control in many of the controversial stories is chilling as well as the total lack of mainstream press critique of government. I think the core of it is Russia's leadership sees international diplomacy as a zero-sum game, rather than forums to find win-win solutions.
I can easily see where the "thoughtful writers" impression came from, but what about those two? What kinds of perspective do you see coming from Russia? I can only presume that you mean the space travelling possibilities when you talk about the engineers - is there anything else of note in the field of Russian engineering? What did you hope for? What was the general sentiment about Russia around that time? I'm still in quite a bit of disbelief about the dystopian state of Russia that I've noticed a few years ago. "It can't be that bad", I thought when I wrote a post about it in one of the Russian social networks, "There must be something good". And, sure, there is: water, food, heating (not everywhere, but hey), sewage system, public transportation, education... But, the more I hear about Russia, the less I think of the country, perspectives-wise. Someone in the thread told me about Russia dealing with North Korea, of all places; I never heard of it, and it shocked me to learn this. Do you have any example you can explain to me in simple terms? I'm not up to the par regarding politics but would like to learn of the course of the country I was born in.A country so full of unique perspectives, amazing engineers
hasn't made the huge positive impact on the world I think we in Europe all hoped for when the soviet order started to collapse
Instead it has crept back into itself and reverted to a statist controlled Orwellian bloc
I think the core of it is Russia's leadership sees international diplomacy as a zero-sum game, rather than forums to find win-win solutions.
These make me want to investigate. Thanks for mentioning! Sounds entirely plausible. Such talks have stopped in Russia as well. Peculiar. I wanted to joke about Russia wanting to be - or appear - stronk, but I'm not sure what could possibly cause such a stance. I agree with your opinion; it is embarrassing to see such way of events.If I'm not mistaken Russian institutions solved some of the more pressing problems in fiberoptics.
What other country would circumvent price of high-octane fuel for helicopters and small planes to re-make engines to run on naphtha!
Most of the media here and in Germany portrayed it as "We will not talk, because we don't want to talk. Mind your own business.".
People without such idea assume that Russia denied it at first and changing decision at any point in the future would make it look weak. Which is, pardon me, utter bullshit stance as far as any other country is concerned.