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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992%E2%80%931993)

"Do you know that it's not Edisson who's invented the lightbulb? And not Marconi who's invented the radio."

Let me guess, you'll next claim Popov invented the radio (not Marconi, not Tesla, not Hertz) and the light bulb was invented by Lodygin (not Edison, not Davy, not Swan) :)

"Can you cite examples of unquestionably bad data from a recent (~15 years) Russian textbook?"

Not directly, no, which is why I posed the question. I do however have enough soviet era textbooks to draw a conclusion from though, from your posts I guessed you're going by those, but if not then I guess the propaganda didn't die with the union.

Is that really the russian school textbook version of the story? Because the rest of the world sure doesn't recognize it that way. But hey, no surprise, during the soviet times, all major discoveries were apparently also made by russians and "stolen" by the big bad capitalists in the west. Reading soviet era textbooks is half sad, half hilarious. Propaganda rules though right?

Oh, do tell. In which way are they mistreated and discriminated? Are the poor things being forced to pass a simple official language test as a part of becoming a citizen? Because you know, it's quite difficult to do so even after living in the country for the last N decades?

It always amazes me that when russians emigrate to say New York, they speak passable english within months, but in the formerly occupied countries were they've lived for decades, they still haven't come to grasp it.

In case anyone's wondering, the reason is that in those formerly occupied countries they were previously the "ruling elite" and everyone was forced to speak russian with them. Not so much anymore, and I guess that just hurts inside :)

Funny also that even when Mr. Putin offered a program for those poor repressed russians in other countries to come back home, with financial assistance and all, almost none took up the offer. Yet they still loudly complain about their "terrible treatment".

It's terrific that Russia runs to protect "minorities", except that it doesn't really care about minorities as a whole (witness the plight of the Maris in Russia itself as an example), but it does very much care that there are russians in pretty much every country in the world - always a nice excuse to claim some sort of mistreatment, fund extremists, react to an inevitable crackdown by the foreign government with sanctions, etc.

So let's see, first Russia supplies weapons and finances to "rebels" within Georgia (ossetian and abkhazi) in the 1990s, because you know, rebels must be aided and such, Russia is so nice and supports minorities all over.

Then Russia has its own rebel problems in Chechnya, yet somehow these are not the good rebels, they must be murdered. So of course after accusing Georgia of harboring some of them, they conduct an air raid in Georgian territory in 2002 and then deny it (this is something of a recurring theme, as in the 2008 bombing of Georgia, Mr. Medvedev also at first claimed Russia didn't bomb anyone and if anything some eager pilots took matters into their own hands)

Then there's the matter of the Russian military. Georgia became independent again in 1991, yet it took 16 years (until 2007) for the Russian military to withdraw from a sovereign country. Now of course there's plans to reoccupy military bases on Georgian territory again, to establish a Black Sea presence. Coincides nicely with the fact that the Russian navy is finally getting kicked out of Ukraine, but then you'd know all about that mr. frustrated russian living in Ukraine :)

What kind of a useless tiny company do you work for that you don't have an employee number, and one that you have to provide in any conversation with HR? :)

Read the lawsuit, it says nothing about his jurisdiction other than to recount his submitted evidence. The sheriff is asking the court to grant a permanent injuction preventing Craigslist from "engaging in the conduct complained of herein". No mention of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, etc.

Further, in the next point, the lawsuit asks the court to order Craigslist to comply with federal, state and municipal laws related to facilitating prostitution. Fine and well, but what that would essentially mean is that for every country/state/city specific page that Craigslist has, they'd be required to specifically research what is allowed and what isn't. If you order them to do this regarding prostitution, why not regarding the sale of any service or good? After all, there are plenty of laws on the books regulating those as well, wildly different in different areas of the world/US/state.

A silly example could be made - we all know the antiquated laws different bodies of law have on the books, or even some very specific small-town regulations. Say Madeuptown, Madeupstate has a municipal law preventing someone from owning more than 1 horse. If that person now buys 2 horses on Craigslist, it would follow that Craigslist is in violation of the court order brought on by sheriff's lawsuit (assuming he had won).