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Not a short one but honestly 2 hours of complete WTF? Utterly mind boggling and beyond any imaginable scale. Then there's the corruption that pays for it.
I will say if you're a slow reader you're going to struggle, Alexei Navalny seems to speak at warp speed.
Certainly puts our amateur scumbags into perspective. Did lol at the duck pond with obligatory houses though.
That’s you on the Novichock list
Novichock
Nice name for a girl 🤔
I can read fast enough, but gave up on that. Not enough time to look at the actual images on screen 😂
Yeah, a lot of the names and connections passed in a blur but the pertinent details stuck easily enough!
you can slow the speed on youtube to 75% makes it more watchable.
It's alright, watch about half of it, not sure if I'll watch the rest, kinda get the jist, worth watching the rest or is it just more of the same?
just watched the whole thing, it's more of the same, just with 700 Euro bog brushes for the vinyard toilets.
Yeah it's a lot of the same theme but the level of excess is incredible. The kind of thing that usually precedes a revolution tbh.
How many palaces could Dumbojo have bought instead of having Brexit?
Has he got grey windows?
This piece gives a good overview without the high speed video.
Article with pictures, not Daily Heil either!
That is pretty nuts. The level of investigation and the flashy video with incredibly convincing 3d rendering is almost as nuts though.
I don't think that suggesting that Poots is a Dance Dance Revolution afficionado is going to boost his hardman image.
I've started watch this guys youtube stuff when I'm grabbing lunch - he's got a few channels like 'Today I found out' and megaprojects but his take on Putin is here Is Putin the richest person in the world?
Looks like a prison to me (albeit a comfortable one, reminiscent of a Las Vegas casino).
I'd much rather be a 'free' man than locked in the Ceasar's Palace.
He'd be bored shitless if he wasn't in charge, can't see him ever retiring there. Looks like a massive vanity project which will never be used....
Its an amazing piece of work and made by one of the bravest men in the world right now.
Its a big story and its only just getting started.
latest installment:
“Now it will no longer be a secret, I am the beneficiary,” Rotenberg said in a video published by Mash channel in Telegram. “There was a rather complicated facility, there were a lot of creditors, and I managed to become the beneficiary.”
Splendid. I knew there must have been a perfectly logical explanation.
He’d be bored shitless if he wasn’t in charge
That and being ex-dictator can be a rather unstable position. If you get someone competent to replace you they may get paranoid about your remaining power base and decide to remove it but if you get someone incompetent then they and you may soon be the wrong side of a mob.
I'm very disappointed that this thread hasn't been updated to say that it's on fire
Related - The Storyville documentary "Navalny" was on BBC2 last night
Utterly mind boggling - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016txs/navalny
I’m very disappointed that this thread hasn’t been updated to say that it’s on fire
Isnt it where he, or at least his family, are supposed to be hiding?
Looks like a massive vanity project which will never be used….
Like the ironically titled Peoples Palace that Ceaușescu built? Most of that (70%) is just sat empty and was completely pointless. It cost 9 billion quid. I've been there. Its ****ing hideous! And just looks weird as its completely surrounded by soviet era concrete tower blocks. Quite a contrast. Its no wonder they shot him. Hopefully the same fate awaits Vlad
Didn't they manage to do something with that one ^^ ?
It's now the Romanian parliament building.
I think it was first built, but Ceaușescu didn't like it so it was demolished, then they rebuilt it. Money is no object when it is stolen.
It's a pretty spectacular building, as are the other buildings facing it.
They now use it as the parliament building, but its still 70% empty
It was just a massive, pointless vanity project of the sort so beloved of insane dictators.
It’s a pretty spectacular building, as are the other buildings facing it.
Its massive, but I think it's 'merits' stop there. Yet the rest of the city looks like this...
With communism, some people really were more equal than others. Its not difficult to see why living in the latter, along with everyone else, and looking at the 'Peoples Palace' every day, you'd have an inclination to put a bullet in the back of your resident dictators head, is it?
I take it the Russian population are fed some concocted image of Putin living in a modest shack in the woods somewhere where he wrestles bears and hunts alligators or some such bullshit?
I am amazed that no Ukraine missile has accidentally hit it …
Communism didn't have a monopoly on concrete in the 60s. There's about half of it still standing here in Pau and there are places to rival Binner's photo up there in Marseille and a dozen other places I've been to. Can anyone guess where this is? Not what people usually associate with the place.
Paris?
Salford?
😉
Too pretty for Salford.
Benidorm?
I'm going to guess at Barcelona outskirts due to the Spanish love of concrete and the mountains in the background?
EDIT - given your clue and your location
However it doesn't look like the uniform layout of buildings you get there nowadays in more central areas
It's very recognisable and is often used in title sequences for TV programmes and for urban "imagery"
Well done ElShalimo, I used to commute through the place on the train and from street level it doesn't look so bad. Barcelona outskirts, Bellvitge:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellvitge_(Hospitalet_de_Llobregat)
There are similar but much smaller areas in Sevilla and Madrid.
Across Europe, many of these places built in the post-war years ended up being ghettos but gentrification and in some areas active local neighbourhood groups, have turned them into much nicer places to live now. I shudder to think what they were like to live in in the 70s and 80s.
Park Hill Sheffield is great example.
We've still got this weird thing sitting empty in Sussex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_van_Hoogstraten#Hamilton_Palace_(1985%E2%80%93present)
are they chimineas or pizza ovens on the roof?
I shudder to think what they were like to live in in the 70s and 80s.
In Spain they probably weren't too bad - when I moved here in 1995 there were still shanty towns on the outskirts of Madrid, and I assume it was similar in the poorest areas back then too. The tower blocks were relatively affluent neighbourhoods. There's no stigma related to living in a flat here, it's perfectly normal housing for all social classes.
Quite a contrast. Its no wonder they shot him.
The Romanians repealed capital punishment the day after they shot Ceaușescu. Top trolling.
Romania still has a corruption problem though, and they do have pretty robust laws in place, where they've even recently sent their former prime minister to jail.
Their laws state that a political party and its members cant tout for party fund or in any way look to use donation or directorships, lobbying etc to enrich their party or themselves. I cant remember the ins and out exactly of the anti corruption laws, it was on some docu i watched a bit back. But pretty much their laws if enforced int he UK would have most of the UK parliament in the dock or in the jail.
But pretty much their laws if enforced int he UK would have most of the UK parliament in the dock or in the jail.
If only we had that here !
If only we had that here !
Sounds good to me!
I don’t think that suggesting that Poots is a Dance Dance Revolution afficionado is going to boost his hardman image.
Depends on the target audience…
