Suppression of Russian language and culture in Ukraine: Ukraine as Cleft Nation and Concept of "Clash of Civilizations" - Fort Russ

Seemingly unrealistic figures were recently cited by Gallup (Gallup, Inc). Gallup experts stated that for 83% of Ukrainians native language is Russian . They have achieved such a startling result using an elegant trick outsmarting "language gamblers" among the respondents to such polls, who answer what is politically correct. Respondents were asked to choose questionnaires printed both in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Then answer to the questions were ignored, and researchers counted just the number of responses in a particular language.

Using this methodology Gallup experts consider the native language not the one that the person states in any official questionnaire, but the one spoken in the family and used in case you need some mental effort like answering the questionnaire. In other words the language a person prefers to use in everyday life. BTW this study was funded by the U.S. government ;-).

Ukrainian paradox: citizens of Ukraine mostly officially specify Ukrainian as their mother tongue, and in everyday life, and informal situations predominantly use Russian.

Ukrainian propaganda explained this by "blaming Soviets" rather that the fact that a small area with population of less then 20% really uses Ukrainian as their native tongue language. The same situation happens with English and other "major" languages, which have strong "gravitational pull". Small languages like small planets lack gravitational pull and thus atmosphere...

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Vladimir Suchan: Logos politikos: A Poll Inadvertently Reveals Some of the Political Reality under the Kiev Junta

Ahead of the early parliamentary elections, US and Ukrainian regime-change sociologists are becoming greatly worried--(again) only fraud and/or special provocation(s) can conceal reality and save the junta from it.

The popular support for the junta and the war is collapsing--hence the ceasefire is saving for now not only the junta's troops, but also the junta's political machine:

"After the steady rise of enthusiasm for war in Ukraine voter polls through the summer, Ukrainian politicians in favor of the military campaign against Donetsk, Lugansk, and Russia, have suffered a DRAMATIC LOSS of support across the country. This was reported in Kiev on September 3. In the first countrywide poll taken since the Ukrainian Army took heavy casualties and retreated from the Donbass at the end of August, voters who had supported the pro-war Radical Party, led by Oleg Lyashko, have dropped from 22.2% to 13.1%. Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s bloc, Patriots of Ukraine, which includes the police and national guard minister, Arsen Avakov, has collapsed from more than 9% to 3.7%. Yulia Timoshenko’s Fatherland party has fallen below her former proteges to 3.5%. The Svoboda (“Freedom”) party of Oleg Tyagnibok, the candidate of the US Embassy in Kiev and the State Department, and Pravy Sektor (“Right Sector”), the party behind the national guard formations fighting in the east, have lost virtually all their support outside the far western regions of the country; across the Ukraine they are now polling just 2.5% and 1%."

The poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology (KIIS) was "independently" (sic) financed and ordered by the US governments, the European Commission, "AND UKRAINIAN OLIGARCHS" (end of quote). So let's repeat that: the poll was financed "independently" and jointly by the US government, the EU, and Ukrainian Nazi oligarchs.

The polling was carried out between August 23 and September 2.

When the non-voters are taken out of the count--thus leaving out around 50% of the electorate--the KIIS poll reveals that 37.1% will vote for the alliance of Petro Poroshenko, elected president on May 25; Olga Bogomolets, the Kiev doctor known as the “angel of the Maidan”; Vitaly Klitschko, currently mayor of Kiev; and Yury Lutsenko, a politician who has been dividing his time between government posts and prison until he joined Poroshenko’s staff in June.

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ZCommunications » A new American political order?

Recently, pollsters found out, via ‘We Need Smith,’ which is a self-declared “movement of Americans who believe we need new leaders because our country is badly headed in the wrong direction” and not relying on the “usual politics,” what they called the “battlelines of a new political order.” I’m not sure how I feel about this whole ‘We Need Smith’ movement, and as a result I will continue to be critical. This article will not only debut my new chart, the ‘People Policy Counter,’ but it will include charts and data on overarching views of the American public presented by the said pollsters, and other polls. And if you have any suggestions, please share them below.

The People Policy Counter

Basically, the People Policy Counter is a list of 100 issues that a majority of the American people believe[1], which is then compared to the positions of politicians (hopefully) and political parties. From my tabulations, I found that (numbers ordered by amount of agreement with the American people):

• The Green Party agrees with the American people 79% of the time
• The Justice Party agrees with the American people 61% of the time
• President Obama agrees with the American people 28% of the time
• The Democratic Party agrees with the American people 25% of the time
• The Libertarian Party agrees with the American people 24% of the time
• The Constitution Party agrees with the American people 21% of the time
• The Republican Party agrees with the American people 6% of the time

These results are not trying to advocate for any of the said parties, or President Obama. I tried to take my bias toward certain issues out of the equation, and I mostly just searched on the Gallup website, snatching up poll results as I went. Rather, taken from a number of polls (probably over 50)[2], it is meant to show how in line these political parties are with the opinions of the American people. As it turns out, only the centre-left Justice Party and the Green Party agree with the American public most of the time, more often than most. There were also a number of issues that I did not know the opinions of the said parties, so I did not fill them out, meaning that the percentages came out of the total of 100 issues. Hopefully, I can expand this to other politicians in the future. Here are some interesting positions that NONE of the parties took (to my knowledge) but the American people believe:

• national referendum on key issues if voters request it
• shorten primary season to five months
• have a nationwide primary election, not individual state primaries
• term limits for politicians in US Senate and US House
• Super PACs should be illegal and there would be less corruption in the political system if there were limits on how much could be given to Super PACs
• attack social problems as a way to lower the crime rate

Before I get to the polls conducted by ‘We Need Smith,’ here are some polls which I didn’t use in my People’s Policy Counter but are still interesting, adding questions about a ‘new political order’ emerging in the United States:

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