Dmitry Orlov

Thank you Mr. Orlov, excelent take on the situation in Ukraine and Israel. I would like to comment on Western Ukrainian language, I don't speak it myself but my family came from Lvov region, when Batyushka Stalin resettled them in Poland. Grandma was Ukrainian, name Biała/Билый, granddad Polish, the language they spoke, was some kind of old Slavonic/old Polish spoken with Russian accent.

When I was crying, Grandma asked:" Що тэбэ дэтынцю?" In Polish you would say "Co tobie dziecko?" 

In Russian:"Что с тобой ребёнок?"

My first language was Russian, in a "displaced persons" family of Russian and Ukrainian parentage. It was the language spoken at home. I heard "Ukrainian" spoken by other people in that group but to my ear it was hillbilly Russian or Pidgin Russian. I could understand it however. The version spoken now by the likes of Zelensky or news readers from Kiev is incomprehensible.

Hi Dmitry

now I can get into boosty again, but my account with you has been lost. Paid with paypal last oktober for the year, i thought.

Can you help?

Greetings

Mark

thanks for the answers.

That part you mentioned the Pashtuns reminded me similar things I had heard about them from my intelligence officer back in the late 80's when I was stationed in Afghanistan. I was in the 9th company of a Spetsnaz unit. I cannot give any further details :))

Good interview, but you should get a better microphone.