"Hail Ukraine! Hail Heroes" (sometimes translated as "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!") sounds for Russian-speaking people _exactly_ as "Sieg Hail!" would sound to American citizens. That was a sign and a countersign in the UPA which was allied with Hitler's Germany and committed such crimes as Volyn' Massacre.

I'm not going to discuss Chechnya here, the crimes or lack thereof of Russia does nothing for the Ukrainian situation.

And also artillery pieces. I guess they only shoot humanitarian aid.

Lots of Jewish people in Ukraine condemn results of the elections. So?

A great idea! I've heard that Obama is going to sign it into law tomorrow. And this law also has a nice provision that all racist Anonymous Cowards are going to be fed to endangered species. Alive.

I'm curious, has CNN or BBC or perhaps New York Times shown you this: http://s3.postimg.org/p7r4c4yu... ? It's a Ukrainian military column masquerading as a medical convoy - a clear violation of Geneva treaties.

Or perhaps told you that teaching Russian is now outlawed in all schools in Slovyansk (with German and English replacing it)? Yeah, surely there is no fascism in Ukraine.

Hail Hit...uhm... Ukraine!

Grammar nazi mode on. "Rhinoceros" is a Greek word, not Latin. So for plural you should either stick to English "rhinoceroses" or use the correct Greek plural "rhinoceros".

Oh, don't flatter yourself. I can read Spanish and Latin American media is neutral. Chinese media is mildly pro-Russian. I don't know about Indian or Arabic media (and frankly I don't even care).

But the narrative of "bold Ukrainian heroes standing against an onrushing Russian invasion" is purely a Western story. How did it happen? Simple. Internal censorship (this video was removed in minutes from the official BBC site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - starting from the 2:00), lack of independent sources and no knowledge of local context.

The usual clustersuck, in other words. That's why US media had no clue at all that once Gadaffi is kicked away, all the country would disintegrate into warring factions.

Yes, in this case RT is the only English-speaking TV outlet that tells the other side of the story. And it's more compelling than what the Western media parrots. Russian media actually has reporters on the ground and they are working in the midst of the fighting and just in recent weeks, several reporters were wounded or killed.

And even Fox News gets their facts right sometimes. However, other news companies are starting to get a clue: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/...

Oh, sorry. Exactly 5 pictures from NATO.

It used to be that most of the scientists from US universities I met at international physics conferences or summer schools were green card holders or recent immigrants. There were hardly any american born ones. Did that change in the last 20 years or does the show slightly misrepresent that ratio.
I am asking because in his way Sheldon reminds me of some Russian physicists I used to know.

Yes, we have exactly one picture from NATO, without any other corroboration. Meanwhile, Polish soldiers were captured by the rebels. So do we have Poland invading Ukraine?

Except that they aren't safe. Even though they are subcritical, they'll still contain plenty of fuel. So there'll be more than enough decay products remaining to cause a meltdown in case of the coolant loss accident.

Nuking it until it glows. First you separate your waste into constituent elements (their oxides, whatever) then you irradiate it with neutrons until most of the medium-level waste transmutes into something with a short enough half-life. You can optimize it a bit by playing with neutron energy to maximize the capture by most problematic isotopes. The size of neutron capture cross-section is not an issue, since you don't need those neutrons to support a chain reaction.

The concept is pretty old, but requires a shitload of neutrons (since you typically need to capture multiple neutrons to transmute a single waste atom). The only practical way to get that much is to use a fast neutron reactor. And even then it's marginal. In future, when we get fusion reactors, fusion neutrons could be used much more economically for that.

If you have a strong enough neutron flux then you can burn the waste (i.e irradiate it until it transmutes to something with a short-enough half-life). Unfortunately, only fast neutron reactors have neutron balance good enough to allow a significant fraction to be diverted for uses other than supporting the chain reaction.

RUSSIANS, not RUSSIAN MILITARY. That's the crucial difference. And pardon me, but I don't believe pictures without any other corroboration.

They were not airborne soldiers and they were captured near the border far from the Ukrainian front. So yes, I'd go with 'accidentally lost' theory.

They could have blamed Berkut officers who escaped to Crimea. Yet curiously there are no witnesses of actual shooters.

Yet Putin's war crimes happened to be bloodless. There was only one fatality during the Crimea takeover.

Maybe because only RT tells about such things? Have you thought about that?

Oh RLY? Let's see: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ) No, no graphic images at all. No tearful stories of "imagine what these poor passengers felt after the rocket hit".

Similar tragedies happen in Ukraine every day now, yet a note somewhere on CNN is certainly enough. Even better if it's worded in a way that tries to avoid blaming Ukrainian soldiers.

And without Western diplomatic support and pressure, there would have been NO revolution at all. Yanukovich would have been voted out by now and everything would have been OK. How about that?

Actually, no. Even Berkuts say that unknown agents, probably from FSB shot people. There's a very real probability that that was a false-flag operation. We see from the current war crimes committed by the Ukrainian army that Maidan leaders are happy to oblige in such matters.

Yet that's what ends up happening. Intentionally or not, in Libya (militia there are doing ethnic cleansings), Syria and Iraq (ISIS), Egypt (more than 300 death sentences for a murder of a policeman) and so on.

I do not watch Russian TV channels. I do not even read official Russian news. All the information I get is from blogs and/or forums. For example, try to read this one: http://talk.lg.ua/index.php?sh... or this blog http://lugansk.co.ua/ . You just _might_ notice that people there do not support Kiev (there ARE supporters, but only a 'vocal minority').

Now tell me, has CNN shown these photos: http://voicesevas.ru/img/4fd15... - that's a bus full of civilians (including children) shot and burned by Ukrainian army. I think not. But of course, every photo of Malaysian airplane got plastered all over the news everywhere.

See, you're basing your conclusions not on actual information, but on several axioms: "Moscow is bad", "Ukraine is good", "English-speaking media is honest". In this system, anything that conflicts with your view is simply 'Russian propaganda' and is obviously false.