MacDailyNews reader Alex has sent a link to kremlin.ru, the site of President of Russ1a, Dmitry Medvedev, which features several photos of Medvedev seated in front of his MacBook Pro.
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Russia – left wing?
Don’t think so.
I think the Nordic countries have got the best balance.
Neither the jungle, nor the prison state.
Nordic countries are a good example what good the taxes can do to the country. We have health care for everybody, dental care for everybody, education for everybody, good transportation systems, high tech companies, clean environment.. Well basically everything what the others want. Peace and prosperity. We can always make things better of course when our basis are so excellent. We even have a real democracies where anyone can achieve anything. We have had several women presidents in the Nordic countries for example.
Also a very good example is the Helsinki itself.
Helsinki is Finland´s Capitol and newly elected City Council has more women than men. Mayor is a man at the moment and two out of four Deputy Mayor´s are woman.
Just for education of some: Russia is ruled by an autocratic, intensely nationalistic right-wing government.
But it appears some people think the Soviet Union was still around…
Now some republicans will either yell their heads of because believing Russia is “finally a reasonable place for capitalists”… or to scream after Apple to be a damn bunch of socialists and communists!
Wouarf! What a pitty! Such a ignorance…
Wow! A white macbook pro! With regular macbook ports! I want one, is this only for sale in Russia, do I look for the Siberia’ model or what? does anyone know the specs for this unit?
BTW, I do not see any evidence of use of mac’s in his office in the background. Obviously a propmaster who throws in a Mac for good looks.
For all you bleeding heart Libs who hope for “unity” following this election:
Forget it. If Obama is elected, we will not forget nor will we excuse your vicious, nasty, 8 years of blind hate.
It’ll be payback time.
Always remember that roughly 60 million people (around half of all voters or every other person) will not have voted for Barack Hussein Osama bin Biden.
In short, if you Obamatards and your complicit media achieve your goal, prepare yourselves for 4 years of revenge, fsckers.
For every little thing that goes wrong – we shall blame your president. We will pretend that Obama is Biden’s puppet. The whole ball of wax.
You reap what you sow.
BTW: Biden makes Dan Quayle sound like Albert Einstein, but the liberal media gives him a total pass.
God forbid “Carter II: Just Blacker” happens, but if it does, prepare for much disharmony.
The 2012 election cycle begins now.
One more thing: If Obama is elected, we will not forget nor will we excuse your vicious, nasty, 8 years of blind hate.
“Blind hate”? Have you looked at the results of the Bush administration lately? Methinks not.
But I would not have expected rabid fanatics to soften all of a sudden in their hours of imminent defeat.
MDN word: “race” No kidding!
assholes, Russia is not a socialist country. It is CAPITALIST. I can’t believe how uninformed you fscking americans are. Especially the right wingers. Ignorant, uninformed and deluded.
You Americans believe that bears still walk on the streets of Russian cities. And you’re sure we all play balaikas. Ha, ha. What a pathetic education system you have!
Russia has been a capitalist country for 17 years already. And our media have MORE freedom than yours.
So, cut that crap about “autocratic, intensely nationalistic right-wing government.”
You Americans believe that bears still walk on the streets of Russian cities. And you’re sure we all play balaikas. Ha, ha. What a pathetic education system you have!
Russia has been a capitalist country for 17 years already. And our media have MORE freedom than yours.
So, cut that crap about “autocratic, intensely nationalistic right-wing government.”
Alexkir from St. Petersburg (Russia): And our media have MORE freedom than yours.
Oh, sure! They all have the freedom to agree with the Putin/Medvedev government. Or “accidentally” get shot if they are a bit too insistent on covering inconvenient topics such as Chechnya and the horrendous situation within the army…
The american media is mostly in a rather sorry state, but Russia’s government, controlled media scene is closer to pre-war Germany than to any reasonably free country.
Alexkir from St. Petersburg (Russia): So, cut that crap about “autocratic, intensely nationalistic right-wing government.”
Let’s see:
“Autocratic”: Opposition politicians are routinely murdered, jailed on thin pretenses or marginalized (not least by suppressing them in the Kremlin-dependent media after independent media have either been shut down or forcibly taken over by Putin-supporting oligarchs).
“Intensely nationalistic”: As a russian you should be aware of the semi-official “Putin youth” which indoctrinates young russians with slogans and methods quite close in tone and content to the Hitler youth. Official government propaganda (uncritically propagated by the Kremlin-dependent media) uses language otherwise known only from dictatorial regimes to attack foreign countries and suppress interior dissent. Aggressive economic and military policies are used to coerce other countries to submission, even with outright invasion as we’ve seen recently; All that accompanied with intense nationalistic propaganda in the home media.
“Right-wing government”: The current russian government not only lets even russian nazi(!) groups run free as they please, discrimination against ethnic minorities is also rising, stoked by official and semi-official means. Antisemitism is unfortunately also still/again a fact of life.
It is sad that Russia has been sort of overrun by a rather chaotic capitalism after the Soviet Union had collapsed, followed by the same old “strong man” politics that have caused so much pain and suffering in the past several times already.
Russia deserves better — much better, in fact!
The USA are beginning to awake from an eight-year nightmare today; I can only hope that Russia will also find its way into a free and prosperous future — not just for a thin and fragile class at the top, beholden to the respective people in power, but for every ordinary russian, regardless of political opinion or ethnic affiliation.
Putin may actually think that he’s doing the best he can, but for a KGB man who has spent much of his life serving the russian occupation force in eastern Germany that’s not saying much.
Re: 1,000 Employee Business Owner
I neither need nor want any of those things. I prefer cars to planes any day of the week, and I’m a fine cook myself.
When times get tough, you’ll need to hire people to compensate for the skills you lack. I, on the other hand, will be a little more self-sufficient.
Sarasota wrote: “Apple has always been popular with the Left. Why would this be a surprise?”
The political spectrum is not linear, it’s circular.
Sarasota apparently doesn’t understand that the current Russian administration is every bit as conservative, arguably more so, than the current neo-con administration in the USA. But that will change today, thank goodness.
back to topic guys. russia and apple. why apple doesn’t have a flagship store on twerskaya (5th avenue of moscow) is beyond me. macs, ipods and iphones are widely available (at least in moscow) but a high profile store would make a lot of sense. awareness of apple is still low in russia and the russians love beautiful, high quality products. if they love it they don’t care how much it costs. with such a store all things apple would fly off the shelves even faster.