Update: 40 people died from 78 passengers 😔

⬛️ Sukhoi Superjet is the first airliner which was designed and create in Russia after the collapse of USSR.
This aircraft has been delevoped by goverment corporation headed by Sergey Chemezov whos "by absolute accident" happens to be an ex colleague and an old friend of Putin.
According to gov stats half of all Suknoi SJ planes were constantly on repairs in 2018.
The causes of tragedy are being analyzed, but I'm pretty sure the true cause will not be made public. Russian government is used to lying to public and they will never want to lose their face by admiting that Russia is not able to produce modern public aircrafts.
However apparantly one of the passanger commented that plane was hit with lighting during the take off and had to return back. It seems that electronics of the plane were damaged and pilots had to hardland the plane on manual without any electronics. To those who are not aware planes get hit with lightning constantly, the electronics of any plane has to be designed to cope with it, but not in Sukhoi's case.

Putins rule has created an environment where the loyalty to regime is chosen over competence. Who cares if you don't know anything about engineering? You're Putins friend? You constantly say patriotic thing in media like USA is enemy of Great Russia? You know how to steal money and hide them in US and Europe? You're perfect fit for any job!

There was a time when Russia could have become a trully the great world power.
Russian had several worlds top oil companies. Russia had a Social network that could rival FB - Vkontakte(taken away), had an amazing search Engine that could rival Google- Yandex, had the best antivirus company - Kaspersky, had a largest retail chain in Europe- first Euroset(taken away), then Magnit(taken away)... Russia had a chance to be an economic superpower like US and China! There's plenty of genius engineering talent developed in this country, that is able to create some mindblowing products with tiny budgets.
Instead Russia chose KGB rule and wars with Moldavia, Georgia, Ukraine.
Chose to be feared, not admired. Chose to give away their freedom to goverment in exchange for right to belong to illusive millitary superpower.

As I was writing this post news came in that VK.com(ex vkontakte) went offline all over Russia... To those who dont know, it was a social network taken away from Durov.
They stole company he built, but they can't even keep it running properly.

Today's electrion system is outdated. Modern politicians can't keep up with the technological change. We have the technology to give people a direct democracy. The presidency and parliament in most countries are crutches which slow up countries development.
We already have a technology that can give people transparancy and robustness - the Blockchain. We have internet that connects everyone and everything. We dont really need these people, even if they're saits! After 4-5 years they get corrupted and dissapoint us.

United States has had an unbelievable economic and social development since they've managed to dich monarchy to create governance which splits power to 3 main branches:
- Executive, president+ cabinet of ministers;
- Legislative, parliament;
- Judicial, Supreme Court and lower Courts.
This governancy system was brilliantly designed, but it's getting outdated there's a way to make it even better. This is why it's interesign to watch development in research of blockchain governance. It's field where we will see lots of discoveries that could make our lifes much better, but it shouldnt stop at the level of research.
I think any country that decentralizes power further could become superpower of next generation. Yes! We will not be able to cry and point fingers at corrupt politicians for the problems in our coutries, we would all have to become politicians.🌍

First you complain about goverment taking away your freedom, stealing your money, raising taxes, leaving you without proper job and medical care... and then you go to watch millitary parade organised by the same government to admire governments millitary power! You support cult of war even though you've never been on a battle! War portrayed as romantic, as something really fun!
But do you know what does war smell like ?
It smells like shit. I mean it literaly, because sewage systems are broken that's why there's a smell of shit everywhere.
War is not pretty and it's not romantic. It's horror where mostly children, women and old people are killed. War is greatest place for maniacs and psychos, where they can execute their wildest fantasies and still get a medal of honour.
A war should be mourned, not celebrated. If your goverment is organizing huge celebrations of war, they might be luring you or your children into another one.

This is just brilliant! Nothing else to add, except @talks

I hope it's true!!! This is an amazing news! Matrix was not just a movie it was a cultural phenomenon. They say it's not going to be reboot, but a continuation... I have not been this excited for upcoming movie for ages !!!

This is quite cool list of cognitive biases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

What a pleasant suprise! One of my favorite Russian journalist has given an inteview in English!
If you want to know about the state of Russian politics right now just listen to this interview. You will get the most comprehensive picture from Julia Latynina. You will not regret it, I promise!
And if you decide to leave a comment under the video please credit my channel for sharing! 👏
https://youtu.be/c0bTck-0T64

All of my family members use Telegram. I convinced all of my friends to switch to Telegram. I actually feel uncomfortable talking through any other messaging app. #switch2telegram

my recipe: If you can't fix a problem, make fun of it. 😆

Looks like crysis between Iran and Arab world has escalated to next level. So far they'd been fighting a proxy war in Yemen, but it seems to be spilling up... This is doesn't look good.
https://youtu.be/F6TPYb7VpLE

New Ukrainean president - Vladimir Zelensky. His first order was to dismiss parliament, head of special services and head of prosecutor's office. So far I'm really liking this guy! I wish Ukraine only the best !!! 🇺🇦

Example. How to manipulate people into giving up their freedom and take their money.

1. Take a scientific reasearch or better order one. In this research(for example) we prove that a substance found in bread flour- we chose a weird short word like E66- can cause cancer;
2. Politicians say that "we are being killed by evil bread producers! research has proven that these evil capitalist are selling us bread with an evil substance - E66 that causes cancer!!! We must create new goverment agency to make sure that people do not eat poison!"
3. Hire media to promote that message;
4. People start to feak out- they've never read that scientific paper, they dont know that chance of E66 causing cancer is less than 1,3% in certain conditions. People demand goverment to take action, to save them from EVIL CAPITALISTS!!!
5. Goverment bravely passes the law and creates new agency, and those politicians who scared people into panic get seats in that agency.
6. All the bread producers understand that it's a bullshit, but they can't sell. So those who have connections go and bribe members of Agency designed to protect people " FROM EVIL CAPITALIST".
7. Those producers who didnt bribe - go out of business. Price goes up.
8. Since producers have to pay bribes they can't buy high quality raw material. - Quality goes down.
9. Final result- People are fucked, politicians made money.

But why did they take power away from people? Because the only thing that people need is an independant Judiciary system.
Producer sold u bad product- sue him! Producer lied about content of the package- sue him! Producer made false promises- sue him!
And get shitload of money from him, so he goes bankrupt. No one else will dare to cheat people and will heavily invest into quality.
But instead we choose to be dumb and believe into horror stories and trust goverment that will protect us.
We dont like to read scientific research papers to find out what really could kill us and how to avoid it, it's boring. It's easier to just think that Capitalists are evil and go watch Game ot Thrones or new memes.

Just watched Zelensky's speech!
FUCKING BRILLIANT !!! 👏👏👏👏

Finally head of Post-USSR country doesnt act like a God, but talks about everyone getting together to build a modern economy.
Talks about the fact that developed world has gone so far and Ukraine needs lots of catching up to do.
But just as Africa has jumped straight into wireless communication passing phone lines - Ukraine has a chance to jump straight into digital governance of the country.
"for every citizen to rule the country from mobile phone" -Zelensky.

On May 7 I wrote a post saying -"I think any country that decentralizes power further could become superpower of next generation."
It could very well be that Ukraine will become that superpower. 💪🇺🇦

Ukraine is the most exciting place in the world right now! I really wish them best of luck !!!

We, as telegram users know quite well who's Pavel Durov, but not everyone knows that Pavel actually has an older brother.
Not a simple older brother, but a genious brother.
Nikolai Durov has won 3 gold medals in every International Mathematical Olympiad he participated in.
He won one Gold and 3 silver medals in International Olympiad in Informatics.

He worked with Pavel in VK.com as a lead developer and still is the "brains" behind all Pavels projects.

Here's a video of the lecture by Nikolai. I'll be honest, I didnt understand anything in this lecture. I'm just posting it to intimidate you 😈
https://youtu.be/oCD2Ohfgklk

Just another day in Russia.