When it comes to reporting on anything related to Russia, ukrainian media are exceptionally biased. It has always been like that and has only gotten worse in the last few months. To believe otherwise is ..., well, ... crazy.

Oh, thanks for pointing out the ukrainian source. Now I am 100% convinced that this whole story has no credibility whatsoever.

If the results posted by Forbes were indeed true, I just don't see how this "President of Russia's Council on Civil Society and Human Rights", which is somewhat famous for its opposition (even maybe fake sometimes) to Putin, would have access to such sensitive data. It just does not make any sense. And yeah, it was "posted briefly", but long enough for Forbes to get a copy of it at just the right time. Too many inconsistencies.

Oh, no! I'll go cry now.

I just don't have the time to counter prove the same old propaganda all over again. Seen it many times and know it doesn't go anywhere from here.

Did I say crazy? I meant crazy.

I should have have realized you were crazy a little earlier. Sorry to have wasted my time.

OMG, your self-righteousness is just so, so... American. No, this is not a compliment.
Kosovo, Iraq, Afganistan, Guantanamo, Libya, Syria just to name a few in the last 15 years. Tell me please, which one of those has been outdone by Russia? Even the much more vilified U.S.S.R. is an angel compared to the U.S. The Vietnam war alone took more lives than all military conflicts the U.S.S.R. had been involed in since WWII. Combined. That's if you want to go 50 years back.
I know your educational system is wanting, but could you please not demonstrate is so openly?

Do not be fooled - the Cold war was never over for you (Americans). Yes, you may have won a major battle in 1991 and had no competition for 10-20 years while Russia was recovering, but that only inflated your ambitions about world domination and eliminated all checks and balances. And nowadays, you are as antagonistic as Russians are.
You have this totally unjustified, groundless sense of moral superiority over Russians whose sometimes questionable actions on the international scene do not bring nearly as much grief and death as any of the American war campaigns launched on the pretext of "liberating" people, "saving" the world from non-existing WMDs, "protecting" democracy, "figting" "terrorism" and so on. It's you that have military bases all over the world. It's you that have defense spending grossing to as much as the rest of the world's. And it's not like you just spend and your troops just sit at home - no, they go places and bring "democracy".
So no, you have no moral high ground on any of the international issues, and no, we will not believe you.

C is a perfectly safe language if used properly. Not to mention that it is as ubiquitous as it can possibly get without sacrificing portability.

I would take the "Korean bargain bucket crap" over Apple's overpriced overhyped glamour gizmos any day. Actually, I do.

If he was killed "rather publicly" by Russians, the media would still be all over it. The fact is that a ukrainian soldier AND a Crimean militia man were killed at the same time by an unidentified person. That makes a difference, don't you think?
As for your friends, they probably were deported to Uzbekistan. Sounds realistic, doesn't it?

Well, I have the advantage of having grown up in Crimea (some from my family still live there) so stories about Russian thugs, ethnic cleaning and things like that generally just make me smile at first :) And then I realize that people believe all kinds of BS they get from media. I probably do too when it comes to things I don't know much/anything about, but in this case I do know that 99% of all the info in western media about Crimea is pure BS.

The only time I heard about the Crimean legislature occupied was when in the first days after Yanukovich's ousting, Crimean Tatars organized a rally in front of the legislature, after which the militias took over the building. But it was vacated soon after. So really it was the Tatars who acted first in Crimea.

It's not about "tainted western sources". It's about making serious accusations without a shred of proof. One has to be blind or deliberately ignorant, to not see how Russians are always portrayed as bad guys in western media. 100 people died in Kiev during "peaceful protests" and nobody's investigating that. 1 random person died in Crimea of unknown causes and it's commonly accepted (again with no proof whatsoever) to have been organized by evil Russians.