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They aren't, they're bluffing. Our ex ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray has called the whole accusation into question, dwelling on the "of a type developed in Russia" being little indication of any possible guilt. From their reaearch to date, Porton Down refused to give an identity for...

There was no need to post this diatribe Wicky, I knew it if course as I also knew and posted that the vast majority of Crimean Tatars left before the creation of the USSR and the Ukraine, leaving a minority of under 34%. Anything that happened afterwards didn't alter that fact and had no...

Only Yeltsin was controlled of course, the rest just followed the Western line as still happens now, plus that many of them were breakaways from the USSR so would agree. I support Russia against the gross distortions of western propaganda because what the west has done was wrong and is...

I don't know why you added that long edit about Russification, but as I've shown above, little of it concerns the USSR or Putin so is of no current relevance. As I've shown, most of the Tatars left the Crimea in the 18th and 19th centuries, long before the Ukraine even came into existence. .

Still not enough for cargo purposes. The Brox pedicabs and 5 cwt vans had that Heinzmann option and with low speed gearing. On test loaded it was good for 8 mph maximum on the flat, but gentle hills were a very slow crawl with very hard pedalling assistance. No chance on anything steeper...

You are missing the point that they have no sitting assembly and had no sitting assemblies at the crucial previous times, Therefore no devolved power authority existed at those times, but the central UK supremacy did and therefore that government had responsibilities. With both parties EU...

You mean America's stooge Boris Yeltsin recognised in 1991, as his US masters wanted. Fortunately drink soon finished him off and Russia was able to take back full control But not what the majority Russian Crimeans wanted. The irony is that the Ukrainian Orange party minority deposed the...

Not so, Stalin's removal of the last Tatars was of the remaining small minority population, and it was those he replaced. The Tatar population of the Crimea left in waves in their own emigrations, mostly to Turkey for religious reasons. Those migrations took place between 1784 and 1790 and...

At least the majority Russian population of the Crimea voted to join Russia, returning rule to where it had mostly been. So Russia in fact didn't invade, nor did it need to since it had long been there with its southern fleet and forces by agreement with the Ukraine. Iraq, Afghanistan and some...

I took it you were asking the question, it didn't show clearly as a link, they don't in this forum which is why I always enhance mine in bold. The information in your link conflicts with other sources online, but either way it's only a small amount and the UK isn't dependent on Russian gas. .

Apparently they have been accused of invading one recently. Britain of course has constantly invaded countries for a millenium, including several very recently. Indeed the UK's newest ships are designed solely for invading other countries and have no defensive capability. .

We are only buying 7% of ours in liquid form from Russia, but Europe as a whole is very dependent on Russian gas, and increasingly so. Russia's gas exports to Europe rose 8.1 per cent last year to a new record level of 194 billion cubic metres, supplying close to 40 per cent of all Europe’s gas. .

I'm well aware of that of course since it's why the N.I. situation exists, but the central UK government still has an overall responsibility and could have acted. They've taken back direct rule before and to have left all N.I. devolved mandatory EU orders not complied with there over 14 years...

True, but our legislative record in this area is depressing to say the least. Twelve years to get the correction to 250 watts and the years of the trade lobbying for the S class came to nothing. The ludicrous situation in Northern Ireland within the UK where pedelecs are regarded as...

If the story about stockpiling is even true. Since there is international access and control to get rid of these weapons and the inspectors have just destroyed 40,000 tonnes of it in Russia to conclude their work there, maybe that's the stuff during the last ten years he was referring to from...

No, it was caused by a payment problem created by the Ukraine Orange revolution government and them cuddling up to the EU. While the Ukraine long remained friendly to Russia they had enjoyed gas at a quarter of the world price. When they swung towards joining the EU and the threat of them...

Thanks Shemozzle, I like the fact that pedalling inclusion isn't necessary in L1e-A, opening the way for greater disability inclusion. Although there's no commercial L1e-A bikes type approved yet, I can't see any problem with having home build ones, normal e-bikes with or without pedal drive...

Not surprising they'd ignore it, incriminating either way, making them either criminal or incompetent. It's akin to the banned legal cross examionation traps, such as "When did you stop beating your wife". .

Some US presidents have been, other hands on the tiller behind the scenes. .

Perhaps May's gambling that to make peace, Putin will invite her on a Russian State visit, consolidating her as an important world leader. ;) .