The interviewer needs to study Pimsleur Russian volume I in order to correctly conjugate verbs like думать (to think) with the polite 3rd person pronoun вы (like usted in Spanish). I know I still make mistakes in Russian, but these are things that should be learned in the first few hours of study.
EDIT: Now I am about 9 minutes in. People are probably struggling with his pronunciation and grammar.
10 minutes- he gets someone with Russian ability to ask the questions.
In his defense, he does have a good basic vocabulary, but Russian is a language where the endings of words, even names, change grammatically depending on their usage in the sentence, similar to Latin.
Annexation is when the military takes territory by force, like they did in the Golan Heights.
It is not annexation when the local people practice democracy by voting
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to declare their independence of a tyrannical regime (word choice intentional!)
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to voluntarily join a union of other states or to join another country.
Jackass' Johnny Knoxville in Bad Grandpa will give you an idea of what an actor can do dressed up as an old dude!
I saved the English version of President Putin's speech from the Kremlin's website for a friend that couldn't access it. Here it is:
Address by the President of the Russian Federation • President of Russia
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Put option
In finance, a put or put option is a financial market derivative instrument that gives the holder the right to sell an asset, at a specified price, by a specified date to the writer of the put. The purchase of a put option is interpreted as a negative sentiment about the future value of the underlying stock.
A year ago, FB gave me a 1 month ban, then at the end of the month, said too much time had passed to change their mind, and it was permanent. Before all this happened, someone was looking at my postings 6 months earlier, and started to report them or complain about them. I don't think any of my FB friends were scrolling back to look at my postings in the past. Someone was getting paid to do this. When there was a button to object, I clicked it and sometimes the complaint was removed.
The guy in the middle of the clip was really sharp too.