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ichkeria | 08:21 Thu 03rd Mar 2022 | News
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/60599739

Will any of these athletes ask for asylum?
Sadly China is unlikely to offer it
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why should the Russians ask for asylum? or have i missed something
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The Belarusians more perhaps.

But would you want to go beck to Russia now?
Not all but a few. It’s just the fact they’re in China …

That statement from the IPC is rather pathetic. They’ve managed to make themselves look the victims
perhaps not, but the Russians will have no problem going home.
I feel sorry for those ordinary Russians who oppose this war, and those in the Ukraine of course.
If I were those athletes I wouldn't want to go home unless I hd family that couldn't get out
They might not have a problem going home emmie, but why would they want to if they do not agree wit the war?
//the Russians will have no problem going home. //

To what? A reformed USSR? Not a happy prospect.
emmie, on "the Ukraine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine

No criticism meant: in my own ignorance, I spent most of my life calling its capital "Kiev" rather than Kyiv. But, in solidarity with the Ukrainians, we shouldn't call it "the Ukraine" if we can help it.
same for the Sudan. I think the only country that requires a definite article (apart from those beginning "The Glorious People's Republic of...") is The Gambia, because they were tired of people confusing them with Zambia.
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Indeed jim, tho I have myself refrained from saying this as it seemed maybe slightly petty in the circumstances.
But quite right.
No problem with calling "Kyiv" "Kiev" by the way. I prefer to use the now-preferred Ukrainian transliteration, but your crimes against the country are fairly insignificant I'd say :-)
JNO, would folk say, "I live in UK/USA" or would they say, "I live in the UK/the USA"?

Mind you, I think we are heading way off the Paralympic decision...
//I spent most of my life calling its capital "Kiev" rather than Kyiv. //

Me too - I'd never heard of Kyiv until this war started. We spell a lot of cities differently from their natives, but in this case Ukraine would, understandably, like to dispense with the Russian version, Kiev, in favour of the Ukrainian spelling. Old habits die hard but I shall do my best.
those would be variants of "the Glorious People's United Kingdom" - more self-descriptions than place names.
The French and Spanish call London, Londres; the Welsh call it Llundain; it is Londyn in Polish.
It doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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That is different.
We do not have our own word for Kyiv, even our own anglicised version (for example Lyons for Lyon, Rheims for Reims) , so we go by transliteration.

Lviv is Lemberg in German, and there are many other examples
I'd put good money on the prospect of the nation being renamed "the Ukraine" should Putin's Invasion succeed; on the capital being referred to as Kiev; on Ukrainian being removed as an official language, etc etc. So in that sense it would also serve as a rejection of such an illegitimate puppet State.

If it ever goes that far, of course. let us hope that it does not.

ichkeria, I think Kiev has been "our own word" for a couple of hundred years. That's not an argument against changing it, of course.
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I think those would be least of the horrors.
It's know they plan persecution of LGBTQ activists, and ethnic cleansing along the lines of that practised in Crimea since 2014.
There is a notoriouis prison in "genocide-hit" Donetsk known chillinly as "Isolatsiya"
There were runours Yanukovich was in Minsk and that they were planning to parachute him (presumably not literally) back into power.
That really shows they've lost the plot if true.
It does make you wonder how such idiocy could triumph, even through brute force.
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ichkeria, I think Kiev has been "our own word""

That is just a transliteration of the Russian

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