Right, but there's a difference between nationalists whose nationalism tends towards wanting Ukraine to be a sovereign independent state, and neo-Nazis. Puting is claiming the latter, tarring them with the same brush, but the reality is that neo-Nazism in Ukraine is lower than levels in even much of Western Europe and the US, and far far lower than in Russia.

Like I said, I've been there. I've seen the national guard volunteers in Kiev. The sight was downright scary. This were the same kind of people you'd find on the yearly neo-Nazi marches in Dortmund (I used to study in Dortmund so I know them first hand). As a German, I am somewhat sensitive to this and trust me, over here these thugs would never be accepted by Bundeswehr. Over there they are welcomed with open arms and are the core of the national guard.

Yes exactly, the aspirations of Ukrainians was to get away from corruption and Russian influence. Yuschenko gave them the latter, but not the former, and so their break from Russia faltered as they felt they had little choice but to tend towards Yanukovych, of course, Yanukovych also continued with the corruption AND tended back towards Russia meaning it was even worse again, hence, we are where we are.

Actually Yanukovich, even being a bandit with a previous conviction, was the lesser of two evils there. He realised that it is very difficult for Ukraine to get away from Russia's influence (it has been a part of Russia for centuries and almost 40% of the population speaks Russian as their primary language) and in many ways counterproductive because, frankly, Russia brings much more money in Ukraine's economy.

It's really splitting hairs, regardless of whether it was formerly part of the USSR or not, it's stupid to pretend it wasn't under the exact same regime of defacto Russian control that Russia is trying to force Ukraine under. No one in the Warsaw pact did anything without Russia's say so.

No, it wasn't really the same. I was born on the other side of Germany and I've been to USSR in the late 1980ies (I actually still speak Russian fluently, although I can't write anymore and have quite an accent). It was really quite different. And Poland was different still.

Complete codswallop, both of these countries have perfectly functioning economies of their own that exist regardless of EU payments

They really haven't. I've been in both countries several times. Everywhere you see, everything is paid with EU money. Estonia might kinda sorta survive on their own, although I doubt it, but Lithuania and Latvia have been depopulated. People flee from there to work and live abroad. The best and brightest don't see any future in their homelands.

Ukraine has it's work cut out, we all know that, but Russia is preventing it from even making a start at moving on as punishment for daring to step away from Russia to a more progressive Western economy and Russia is the one that's further courting and funding neo-Nazis and their groups across Europe, not Ukraine.

Seriously? Several Ukrainian governments were built on one single premise: "We just need to cut all ties to Russia and then we'll immediately be rich". Unfortunately, this was just opium for the masses because in reality the same politicians just tried to steal whatever was left from the Soviet times and sell it abroad. Maidan started as a popular uprising but was quickly seized by neo-Nazis on one side and business interests on other side - the interests of those whom Yanukovich didn't let steal, preferring his own cronies instead.

What Russia does in Donbass, is, obviously, asshatery. But, to be honest, after visiting the country I can sort of understand the Crimean attorney general when she says that she was ashamed to live in the country where bandits freely walk about the streets". The neo-Nazis in the national guard are very real and one of the Maidan commanders was known for fighting in Chechnya for the islamists because he enjoyed killing Russians. And every day government troops continues to shell civilians the separatists will get more volunteers. Don't get it wrong, this is a real civil war happening there and there are several sides involved who put more fuel into fire.

Look, there are more than enough nationalists in Ukraine. Seen them myself when I was there a month ago. And unfortunately, so far Ukrainians indeed have been incapable to get a stable and honest government.

Yushenko, whom you have mentioned, was raised to power basically by a paid mob. And then after one term he has received just 5.45% of votes because he sucked so much and a bandit was elected instead. Cue the paid mob again four years later (yes, there was a popular uprising, but the militant part of it had nothing to do with the general populace) and now they have a political opportunist of the worst kind.

P.S. I don't know what you are smoking, Poland never was a soviet state. Estonia and Lithuania were, but they aren't a valid example for Ukraine because the population of each of these countries is about as large as of one of Ukraine's cities. Baltic countries were deindustrialised after USSR broke up and their economy basically consists of EU payments, which is, in case of Ukraine, totally unrealistic. Ukraine, on the other hand, has inherited a huge industrial base, which is still an important part of their economy, but this industry is not competitive and only good enough for Russia. Thus pandering to nationalists by pissing of Russia - during Yushenko's reign and after Yanukovich was ousted - was kinda stupid. Saying that Russia is the source of all problems in Ukraine is as stupid, as saying that Jews were the source of all problems in the Weimar Republic.

Poroshenko is not a fascist. He is an opportunist who has worked for every government Ukraine had since their independence. This time he saw the opportunity in pandering to the nationalists. But honestly, as long as he can stay in power, he doesn't care which side he is on.

And no, nationalism is not a good thing. Orwell had a well-written essay explaining why.

Not really, no. Export of raw materials and foodstuff, no high tech, a strong orthodox church, a huge gap between rich and poor - this doesn't look like USSR at all. More like tsarist Russia.

Is it just you or are all Greeks such attention whores?

It is not an arrow, it is a bloody bomb. 30 cm accuracy is good enough for explosives.

In a way, so you have with a gasoline car.
Fuel has to be transported from the refinery to the depot, then distributed from depots to the stations. And then fuel has to be burned (a huge conversion loss).

Really? Not in my experience. Have been developing embedded software in C for money for 10 years now. The more years have passed, the stronger my dislike of C grew. It was ugly enough for the 1970ies, but using the same tools in 2015 is insane, I think. It is like using a slide rule instead of a TI-84.

You really should do that. There are special rates for people who use their cars for commerce and even more special rates for people who transport other people for money. For example:

GewerbsmÃÃYige PersonenbefÃrderung und Vermietung
6. Kein Versicherungsschutz besteht für SchÃden auf einer Fahrt, bei der das versicherte
Fahrzeug zur gewerbsmÃÃYigen
PersonenbefÃrderung oder gewerbsmÃÃYigen Vermietung
verwendet wird.

The country that got to be rich and powerful by innovation and thought

More like by having a large land mass and being mostly spared from WW1 and WW2.

Well, there are some doctors who are "appointment only" but there are usually enough to chose from (although it might be more difficult in very small towns and villages). Many public health insurance companies have a service where they themselves can search for a doctor and make an appointment on request. Doctors usually also give private insured patients a higher priority (they pay better) . Some doctors only take private insured patients (either because they pay better - this is mostly relevant for specialists, less so for GPs - or because they have lost their public health service accreditation). Urgent care is normally meant for serious problems or for patients that arrive outside the usual working hours. The public health service accreditation also means that the doctor is not allowed to turn a patient down if he can somehow find time for the patient.

All in all it is not a perfect system, it has its fair share of problems, but it usually works.

You either call several doctors searching for one who has time for an appointment at the same day or you go to the doctor's office without an appointment and accept some waiting time (one or two hours for a GP, longer for a specialist).

That didn't work in EU so they became an actual bank in Luxembourg.

Same here with Galaxy S5. Lollipop is stupid on an AMOLED screen - the UI is way too bright, it eats the battery like there is no tomorrow. But to be honest, if I had a choice, I'd use Gingerbread (CM7) - that was the last Android version I actually enjoyed to use. It had a good looking, comfortable consistent UI, not the flat look UX crap where you need to go through several menus to find what you want.

Not so high end at all, here in Germany, many nerds had ISDN by that time, it was in fact cheaper than having two analogue lines and way faster than a 28800 modem.