Sarkozy? He seemed perfectly fine after talks with Putin.And look on Sarkozy or Zeman after talk with Russians.![]()
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Sarkozy? He seemed perfectly fine after talks with Putin.And look on Sarkozy or Zeman after talk with Russians.![]()
With Russian News tread, I feel this thread must be excavated, brushed, and put to use again.
Hey, Gelion, welcome back! What's up on the rim?
One massive problem with Russia's agricultural sector...
Anyway, while Russians do drink, it is only in the foreign guest's eyesight they do so 100% of time.![]()
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Russia is quite literally drinking itself to death
More than 30% of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, according to WHO data crunched by the OECD. That’s by far the highest among the nations it tracked.
The result? Russians live some of the shortest lives in any large economy. Life expectancy for a Russian man was roughly 65 years in 2012, compared to 76 years for the US and 74 for China.
Part of the reason is cultural. Hard drinking has long been a Russian habit. A paper published in 2013 found that relatively high levels of alcohol-related deaths can be found in Russian data going back to the late 19th century.
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a glimpse at the chart above shows just what a tragic outlier Russia remains
http://qz.com/403307/russia-is-quite-literally-drinking-itself-to-death/
Is it good or bad? And what kind of high value agricultural goods you propose Russia to export - why wheat grain not good enough?You guys are exporting low value agricultural goods and importing high value agricultural goods thus your continuing agricultural deficit.
Thank you, though it doesn't look like you really appreciate the news.You have found a sector nobody else wanted due to low margins and low prices, congratulations, I guess.
But we are just stupid Russians, we can't be as smart as our American mentorsIf you guys were smart
And what is wrong with Estonia ?
Mellence6 months ago
+Gaian Valdegamo Estonians are very well known in Eastern Europe for drinking. A good Estonian buddy of mine was out traveling, and wanted to hide the fact he was Estonian when there was a traveling group of loud drunk Estonians.
Despite that, it's a lovely country, with amazing people.
PrimalVibes6 months ago
We're not actually like this... Well, a little bit of this
Might have something to do with having been a part of Russia for ~250 out of last ~300 years...Why Eesti ? WHY ?
Wouldn't dream of tryingYou can't beat this anyway!
Might have something to do with having been a part of Russia for ~250 out of last ~300 years...
Wouldn't dream of trying
Although my personal favorite is the fishing one.
According to the Wiktionary entry on ker, it is a shortened form of kerber eventually from kerberos.I tried but was never able to find anything on etymology of one of the words we use for dog in Serbo-Croatian.
Кер (male dog)
Керуша (female dog)
In latin script it would be ker and kerusha (kerua).
Anything similar in Russian or Ukrainian?
They all are part of vodka belt, aka Russian sphere of influenceThere's no addiction to Russian language, there IS addiction to ethanol.