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Japan to transfer $3 billion from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says

kyivindependent.com Japan to transfer $3 billion from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Zelensky says

In a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Zelensky expressed his gratitude for Japan's previous aid to Ukraine, which has totaled $12 billion and "makes it possible to save thousands of lives."

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2mo ago

Japan to transfer $3 billion from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Zelensky says

kyivindependent.com /zelensky-japan-to-transfer-3-billion-in-aid-from-frozen-russian-assets/

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Russia just hacked Japan Airlines in response. I swear I'll open a champagne when that evil empire will cease to exist
- They'll cease to exist the same way the Soviet Union did - silent for a while, then the same shit over again.
  
  Yeah, it's true. Maybe this time, the root cause, the KGB, will finally be eradicated.
  Also, though, the empire did shrink quite a lot last time, so hey, it's a step in the right direction lol
  
  The problem fundamentally is that the Russian people crave autocracy, maybe not on an individual level but certainly on a collective level.
  Rural, uneducated, poor, hyperreligious, xenophobic bumpkins are always the foundation of support for every single autocrat in the last century.
  
  Well, maybe we'll be a bit better prepared next time

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Why are there so many articles that drop the second Y from his name? It's Zelenskyy. I haven't seen an article on Lemmy in the past couple weeks that spelled his name right.
- His name is spelled Зеленський. Any conversion to English letters requires following a method of romanising Cyrillic letters. The most common method, which admittedly is used in Russia, is to represent the ий with just a single Y, but in Ukraine I believe it's more common to use two.
  Nevertheless, people don't always use the same system, just as Chinese 北京 "Beijing" used to be written as Peking, due to the Romanisation system of the time.
  With the current political climate, it's probably best to use the double Y spelling.
  
  Thanks for that breakdown. Very informative.
  
  I regret to inform you that my mind has been blown on this day.
- The literal translation would be Zelenskiy (he writes his own surname this way) but for English speakers it doesn't add any value to add an extra letter
  
  I think the I is a Russia thing I think the doubles y is Ukrainian

So many Russians crying about this after opting in to an undemocratic fiat currency.
- When did they opt-in the fiat currency, exactly?
  what other option did they have?
  And, most importantly, what was the last product (other than fiat) you bought with crypto?
  Stop burning our planet, billionaire wannabe.
  
  You're asking what other option they had out of one side of your mouth, while criticizing that option out the other side.
  Why is my pizza place anecdotally accepting crypto important? If my answer was supposed to be "nothing [I just don't want it seized because I was born in an imperialist oligarchy too]", what was going to be your response?
  Since you're not offering an alternative yourself, it sounds like you're suggesting they stay on the Ruble. Which hurts the environment even more (encourages consumption) and worsens inequality even more (Cantillon effect).
  If you do have a better option, then I'd like to hear that!