Not only have I never gone to school, but not even the Holden school, which keeps ignoring me anyway. - Nicolai Lilin

La Russia corrisponde a un sesto delle terre emerse, è stata messa in atto un’azione castrante nei confronti delle Olimpiadi perché i giochi olimpici senza la Russia saranno una barzelletta. Ma ancora di più saranno uno schiaffo alla democrazia, al pluralismo e all’unità di tutti i popoli che si ritrovano nello spirito olimpico. [...] Questo è un pretesto per far apparire la Russia, davanti a tutto il mondo civile, come un Paese canaglia, risvegliando i fantasmi della Guerra fredda. È un modo per umiliare la Russia e i suoi cittadini. Tra l’altro non capisco ancora su quali prove reali di basi questa fandonia. A me sembra una presa di posizione, le argomentazioni mi sembrano deboli e non abbiamo ancora visto prove incontrovertibili.

My daughter's only five years old and she's already learned how to dissassemble and reassemble a gun: I taught her that because I think it could be a useful skill for her one day.

If you read Wikipedia it seems that the Moldovans tried to re-annex Transnistria which in the meantime had proclaimed itself independent. It is half true. First of all, the Moldovans did not want to leave the Soviet Union. They left because some corrupt politicians, paid by Western oligarchs, destroyed the USSR. An army of mercenaries from all over the world arrived here: Hungarians, Germans, people from the Baltic countries. If the war lasted only two months it is precisely because the majority of the Moldovan people were against it and did not want to invade us. The greatest number of victims occurred during the first few days, when people were simply massacred while they tried to return home in fear. The first resistance, the most consistent, was popular. We kids rode the streets on bicycles and collected ammunition, we took weapons and other useful things from the dead. We followed the movements of military vehicles and reported them to the adults. It also happened that we fired Kalashnikovs in firefights. At that time the people in my building lived in my house because we had water from the well and several supplies of canned food. In the apartments there was no electricity, nor gas, they also cut off the water in the whole city because the mercenaries had tried to poison it. There were also several elderly people who needed medicine; in our courtyard we had a small refugee camp.