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You know, no one really counts Moscovites among Russians - and there were probably many of them among your counterparts in Nizhny. Russian as spoken in Siberia is pretty close to the literature norm too - if there's a linguistic center of the country, it's there.

The people who would be happy to live within 17th century borders - mostly no Asia - are "professional Russkie", or fundamentalist, nationalist, and cave Orthodox types. I doubt very much EU would be happy with this country as a member.

by Sargon on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 02:41:19 PM EST
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Those who told me that were probably from Moscow, but they didn't seem to be ultra-nationalists or fundamentalists. I was shocked by their discourse and, indeed, I wouldn't like Russia to join the EU on such basis.

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 02:52:59 PM EST
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russia will buy the EU, they don't need to join it, unless we pull our finger out!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 07:29:52 PM EST
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You know, no one really counts Moscovites among Russians - and there were probably many of them among your counterparts in Nizhny.

Also, they were drunk.

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And don't even get me started on the "Moscow is not really Russia" and "Where is the true soul of Russia located?" debates.  uhg.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Aug 14th, 2008 at 02:55:39 PM EST
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