Dear god, you're insane. Where did you get that `black' shit about the Georgians/Azeris and what not? What on earth do you grow in your head??? I mean, you might bother checking, but all these people are white. Just as the Russians.
Ah, thanks, so that is what Tukt was talking about on IG.
Dang! Mad props to Kolyada for withdrawing and refusing to participate. It's interesting that most of these skaters opposed and upset are St Petersburg-based.
their funding may now depend on doing the events and without funding, they are out of skating as very few have wealthy families, and they may not be as wealthy as they were.
Tickets to that show looked like this:
For people who don't know Russian, the tickets say "For Peace, For Russia, For the Future". The word for is за, but they use the spelling za which is the pro-war Z symbol instead of the real Cyrillic letter.
It's not a matter of racial classification in Russian. "Черный" (literally 'black") is sometimes used by some people in a derogatory way - extremely rude, vulgar, uneducated, you name it - to refer mostly to a person of Azeri or Armenian origin, and also to some ethnicities from the Russian Caucasus ( but very rarely about Georgians for whatever reason). It's basically a term of abuse, an even ruder form being "черно...опый" ( 'black arsed').
In Germany Z is now forbidden like Hakenkreuz and is criminal.
Is a Hakenkreuz a swastika?
yes, that is the German word for it.
Is it? Putin's thrown, what, hundreds in jail for protesting? He'd think nothing of 6 or 7. Of course, with high-profile figures he tends to favor poison ...
Not exactly surprising. I get the impression if Nikita were American, he'd be a QAnon Trump-loving bro. Doesn't exactly seem like the brightest or most self-aware lad.
Get a grip.
Yes.
Am trying to see who are the Moscow based skaters in that show - think they are either Pluschenko school to begin with or are not really invited anywhere (Kostornaya)
Exactly. Hence the idiot's idea that black lives matter should be applied to Georgians (in Eteri's case) is well, idiotic.
He is untouchable as long as he supports the regime. As for the reaction of the world - when was he invited to a show outside Russia the last time? 5-6 years ago to Italy? What does he have to lose?
Eteri skaters were skating in Minsk at the same day in Eteri's show. It's VERY easy to punish as many skaters as they like - you keep forgetting that they are state funded.
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