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    MajesticSeaFlapFlapMarina Galperina
    7/20/16 2:00pm

    Whats with the guy who doesn’t even flinch when the bomb goes off? He’s the first one to go to the car, presumably to try to help... it just seems odd.

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      pedal-forceMajesticSeaFlapFlap
      7/20/16 2:10pm

      That was what I noticed too. Multiple people on that street react like a car bomb going off 20 feet away is something that happens regularly. I’d be laying on the ground in a puddle of my own urine.

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      Anastracepedal-force
      7/20/16 2:15pm

      You...do know that Ukraine has been fighting Russian backed partisans that annexed Crimea, and attempted to push farther into the Ukraine, for the better part of 2 years now right? When war is your natural state, you become numb to a lot of things.

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    Bolivia Newton JohnMarina Galperina
    7/20/16 2:05pm

    A car bomb is not very subtle, is it? Then again, neither is dioxin poisoning, polonium-210 poisoning, shooting someone in broad daylight, shooting someone in the back of the head, drive by shootings, etc.

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      cuntybawsBolivia Newton John
      7/20/16 2:10pm

      It lacks the delicate touch of spending ten years backing someone’s opponents in legal matters, seeking to bankrupt them, certainly ... not that Denton is a Sheremet ....

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      Mr.PeepersBolivia Newton John
      7/20/16 2:12pm

      They publicly, openly kill journalists and don’t give half a fuck who knows it. If people started a Journalists Lives Matter campaign they’d kill all those people too. Unless you like selling how great Putin is, journalism in former Soviet states is pretty much suicide.

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    secretagentmanMarina Galperina
    7/20/16 1:59pm

    I guess he wouldn’t drink the tea.

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      Mr.Peeperssecretagentman
      7/20/16 2:16pm

      Only popular former spies get that special treatment. That is some serious “Do not fuck with us” stuff. The Israelis did that to Arafat too. There’s killing, there’s killing that ends with a closed casket and there’s killing that ends in your house being destroyed and never seeing or touching the body so you don’t die as well.

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      Mr.Peeperssecretagentman
      7/20/16 2:18pm

      On second thought, this was a very kind, fast and generous death.

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    Jerry-NetherlandMarina Galperina
    7/20/16 2:09pm

    About 115 years ago, my great-great grandparents (and a few already born great-grandparents) left, variously, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia (some to the USA and some to Canada).

    Not one of them - nor any member of their progeny - have ever looked back. They left because life was awful under the Czar. That part remains the same, evidently; Nicholas II then, Vladimir now. So, every story that comes out of that region makes me eternally grateful to my ancestors for getting the fuck out of there.

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      missmaggiethecatJerry-Netherland
      7/20/16 2:28pm

      Same, but it was my paternal Grandmother who got out, along with some of her family. I still have family there (in the Lviv area). I know there are those who think Ukrainians by and large would prefer to be part of Russia again, but that’s far from the case with many of them. I fear for my relatives there.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsMarina Galperina
    7/20/16 1:56pm
    GIF

    Trump just had an orgasm hearing this news. This is how a real leader deals with the press.

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      Endless Supply of CynicismMarina Galperina
      7/20/16 1:53pm

      Trump on MSNBC heaped praise on Putin and hesitated to condemn the Russian leader for allegations the Kremlin has killed high-profile journalists critical of Putin, saying “our country does plenty of killing also.”

      http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/…

      ...or rather it will when I’m president

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        Sean BrodyMarina Galperina
        7/20/16 1:54pm

        An audiotape appeared to document then-president Leonid Kuchma and his top aides instructing subordinates to get rid of the journalist, but the charges against them were dropped.

        Am I safe in assuming Kuchma was a pro-Russian president?

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          cruise-controllerSean Brody
          7/20/16 4:15pm

          He was the president in the 90's when most people still couldn’t believe that Ukraine and Russia were separate countries. Ties were a lot closer then.

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        Mr.PeepersMarina Galperina
        7/20/16 2:07pm

        Oh Crimea river. It’s not like there’s anyone involved in Ukraine that enjoys killing journalists. Nothing to see here. Someone placed a bomb in the wrong car by mistake. Could happen to anyone.

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          Misteaks were madeMarina Galperina
          7/20/16 2:09pm

          That’s all the damage the bomb did to the Subaru? I’m not very Imprezed.

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            Mental IcebergMarina Galperina
            7/20/16 1:54pm
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