New in the news...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/senate-passes-ban-russian-uranium-imports-risking-havoc-and-soaring-price-uranium-markets

Yup, Obama-Bidenism brilliance...hostile to mining at home...cutting of foreign supplies rich with a product you've made more scarce...

Real men of retardation! 

And, another one...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-chief-says-hes-pressuring-eu-countries-give-their-patriot-systems

Yes, yes...weaken yourselves so when the Rus comes for you...you are much weaker!   

As for this...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1785344393387364406

https://youtu.be/hZJRJpbGkG4

Wrong, dude!  It's good for everybody, obviously!

I watched a lot of social media before and during the SMO. This is an example of why the Russians think the Ukr went bat sh*t crazy. The answers to this question are the same as statements I heard from Russians about Ukrainians. The Kiev govt turned a geographical term (like Appalachia) "the Ukraine" later an SSR name,  into a fake ancient country then into a fake ethnic group even a race. After the 2014 coup Kiev shut down the RU media and pounded this stuff into the airwaves for years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskARussian/comments/1cf3iqa/after_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is/
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, is intermarriage between people from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus still common?
Society

For example, is it common for a Russian husband to marry a Ukrainian wife, or for a Belarusian husband to marry a Russian wife?


We don't consider it intermarriage because the cultures and ethnicities are too similar. In everyday communication, you will not find out what citizenship people have unless they themselves tell you directly.

I'm from Uzbekistan my wife is from Ukraine. We are not married foreigners, we are soviet couple.



There are many Russians living in Ukraine, many Ukrainians living in Russia and many variants of in/between in either country. It's not like there is a post behind which one ethnicity ends and another starts (unlike nationality).
There was a lot of interethnic mixing in Soviet Union and also mobility throughout its territories. E.g. my mom (Kazan Tatar) married a Bashkir, one of her sisters married a Russian and ended up in Nakhodka, another one married a Kazakh and moved to Kazakhstan and my uncle married a Siberian Tatar from Tyumen while studying in Moscow.
Some people stayed where they were settled after the collapse of the SU and some returned - esp. Russians to Russia because of some cases of interethnic violence.
Upd. Afterthought - or were you talking about nationalities as opposed to ethnicities? Or maybe you don't realize those don't necessarily correspond?

such marriages are not considered "intermarriage"

You don't understand yet. We all are one folk! We do not divide ourselves on Russians, Ukranias, Belarusians. We are all - same. Almost all Russians have relatives in Ukraine and Belarus. This is not any kind of "intermarriage" whatever you mean under this term. There is just no any difference between us. The West organized that war to weaken Russia by hands of brothers, setting brother against brother.

Ha!  One folk...dominated by Rus.  As I've already noted they've long sanitized the Scandinavian influence that if not present there would have been any Rus...just Mongol-Slavic barbarians!

The Scandinavian countries should be the lords of all latter day Rus! 

Uhh huh, yeah ok...

So they can use them as war fodder...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/1/is-russia-recruiting-muslim-migrants-to-fight-its-war-in-ukraine

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/russia-forcing-muslim-migrants-to-fight-its-war-in-ukraine/articleshow/104949648.cms

...and laborers...

...but, in the wake of the attacks they appear to have flip-flopped on Ukraine blame to mass deportations of "migrants"...

Authorities in St. Petersburg have been deporting migrants en masse in the week since the deadly attack on a Moscow region concert hall, the legal rights group Perviy Otdel said Friday.

More than 64 foreigners were deported from the city’s Vyborgsky district on Thursday alone, the NGO said, citing one of its unidentified lawyers.

“Temporary detention centers for foreign citizens are packed, surrounded by special vehicles and buses heading to the airport,” the lawyer was quoted as saying.

A number of buses carrying migrants were also headed to St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo International Airport on Friday afternoon, they added.

The countries where the migrants were being sent to were not specified, though it is known that labor migrants in Russia mostly hail from poor Central Asian countries.

Bailiffs reportedly refer to St. Petersburg’s mass deportations as “Operation Anti-Migrant,” with raids targeting local hostels and apartments. Similar raids were reported in Moscow and other Russian cities.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/29/mass-deportations-seen-in-st-petersburg-after-moscow-concert-attack-ngo-a84685

...the oh so ethically superior Rus, champions of fairness and harmony, are rounding up and kicking out their "laborers"...

Looks like Rus is just like Kansas!   

I watched a lot of social media before and during the SMO. This is an example of why the Russians think the Ukr went bat sh*t crazy. The answers to this question are the same as statements I heard from Russians about Ukrainians. The Kiev govt turned a geographical term (like Appalachia) "the Ukraine" later an SSR name,  into a fake ancient country then into a fake ethnic group even a race. After the 2014 coup Kiev shut down the RU media and pounded this stuff into the airwaves for years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskARussian/comments/1cf3iqa/after_the_collapse_of_the_soviet_union_is/
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, is intermarriage between people from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus still common?
Society

For example, is it common for a Russian husband to marry a Ukrainian wife, or for a Belarusian husband to marry a Russian wife?


We don't consider it intermarriage because the cultures and ethnicities are too similar. In everyday communication, you will not find out what citizenship people have unless they themselves tell you directly.

I'm from Uzbekistan my wife is from Ukraine. We are not married foreigners, we are soviet couple.



There are many Russians living in Ukraine, many Ukrainians living in Russia and many variants of in/between in either country. It's not like there is a post behind which one ethnicity ends and another starts (unlike nationality).
There was a lot of interethnic mixing in Soviet Union and also mobility throughout its territories. E.g. my mom (Kazan Tatar) married a Bashkir, one of her sisters married a Russian and ended up in Nakhodka, another one married a Kazakh and moved to Kazakhstan and my uncle married a Siberian Tatar from Tyumen while studying in Moscow.
Some people stayed where they were settled after the collapse of the SU and some returned - esp. Russians to Russia because of some cases of interethnic violence.
Upd. Afterthought - or were you talking about nationalities as opposed to ethnicities? Or maybe you don't realize those don't necessarily correspond?

such marriages are not considered "intermarriage"

You don't understand yet. We all are one folk! We do not divide ourselves on Russians, Ukranias, Belarusians. We are all - same. Almost all Russians have relatives in Ukraine and Belarus. This is not any kind of "intermarriage" whatever you mean under this term. There is just no any difference between us. The West organized that war to weaken Russia by hands of brothers, setting brother against brother.

No kiddin'!