[vidafelice-deactivated20250128]

Занятное воспоминание

Году в 2008 у меня был телефон Nokia 5310.первый с картой памяти. И я пользовалась этим на максимум.

Большую часть лета я проводила за городом у дедушки. И интернета там не было и близко, а телефонный интернет стоил баснословно.

Не уверена, что в те времена вообще существовали приложения для чтения на телефоне. А вот читать я любила и люблю.

Я находила выход из ситуации:

В городе на компе был интернет. Да, надо было просить, чтобы не пользовались телефоном, а то его вырубало, но все же.

Я находила в интернете книги, копировала из браузера текст в ворд. В вроде форматировала текст так чтобы с телефона было легче читать и делала фото. Причём шрифт делала микроскопический, а после максимально увеличивала фото, когда читала. Чудо, но из этой каши пикселей я умудрялась выделять буквы.

В целом, моя карта памяти позволяла мне так сфотографировать примерно 80 стр книги.

И к этому тексту я относилась как к деликатесу. Растягивала как могла. И это был такой кайф.

А теперь у меня три вкладки в режиме онлайн с разными книгами и читай сколько хочешь. Что я собственно и делаю. Это во мне не изменилось.

А у вас были какие-то телефонные лайфхаки тех времен. Кроме записи музыки не в mp3 а на диктофон. Всё мы так делали.

[promajaaaa]

If there is a day for which it can be said that it has ultimately determined the history of Serbia, then it is undoubtedly Vidovdan (28 June). It turned out that all Serbian defeats and victories during the turbulent centuries are somehow tied to that June 28th, from the Battle of Kosovo, through the Sarajevo assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, to the events from the recent history, so the cult of Vidovdan became deep-rooted in the Serbian collective identity. On this day in 1389 (June 15 according to the old calendar and June 28 by the Gregorian calendar), the battle at Kosovo Polje had stopped the further expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe and it is remembered today as the most important battle in the history of the Serbian people. On that day, Serbian army was led by Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the Turkish army by sultan Murat I and his sons Bayezid and Jacob. Both armies lost a large number of soldiers, almost all Serbian knights were killed, but also both the Serbian prince and the Ottoman sultan lost their lives that day. Some historical sources testify about the Serbian victory, since the Ottoman army retreated from the battlefield and left Serbia after the battle. Later interpretations of history state that the result of the battle was draw or even that Serbia was defeated. Without wanting to draw conclusions, we’ll only say that we deeply believe that the whole story of the Serbian defeat in the Battle of Kosovo was made up to weaken the Serbian national spirit. Despite everything, Kosovo heroes have remained the symbol of the Serbian national struggle for freedom through the centuries and someone whom the Serbs still remember with pride. It is such collective memory that has helped the Serbs to preserve the national consciousness and the Orthodox faith through the centuries of slavery, something that has led us and still leads us today through the struggle for survival as a nation. (x) Today we mark 628 years of the famous Battle of Kosovo! 

[theundergroundwoman]

28. 06. 1389. - 28. 06. 2019.

Срећан Видовдан! 🇷🇸

Happy Vidovdan! 🇷🇸

[theundergroundwoman]

28.06.1389. - 28.06.2020. 🇷🇸

[awed-frog]

Digital artist Daniel Voshart recreates the ‘real’ faces of Roman emperors thanks to machine learning. You can learn more about the process, discover more emperors or buy a poster here.

[Marcus Aurelius]

[Lucius Verus]

[Trajan]

[pp-haver]

NO WAY IN HELL WERE THEY THIS WHITE

[a-themosthappy]

Today we are going to discuss a very serious topic: individuals who think that Italic people were POC.

[awed-frog]

I went down a rabbit hole of DNA studies trying to understand why people on tumblr seem to think the Romans were not white, and here are a few thoughts:

in Europe, ‘white’ isn’t a thing

in the sense that there are so many shades of white, it doesn’t really mean anything

like, Spanish white and Swedish white are different things, but we wouldn’t consider either ‘non-white’ or ‘whiter’

you can generally tell where someone’s from, but there are people who ‘look out of place’ a bit everywhere

either because recent or century-old migrations, or because of a previous population that lived there and then the borders moved or something

and: in a nutshell, Italian geography discourages friendships

that means that before the Romans came along, people generally kept to themselves, so there’s more genetic diversity the farther back you go

at some point in the Neolithic, there were non Indo-European tribes living in Italy, but we don’t know exactly where they came from

the Indo-European people, on the other hand, probably invaded from the North

except for the Etruscans, because as it turns out, Herodotus was right (AGAIN! HAHHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT HATERS) and they actually came from somewhere in modern Turkey

which still doesn’t mean they weren’t white, btw

even today, there’s plenty of people in the Middle East who look like this:

[top to bottom: a Kurdish fighter; Iranian politician Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; Syrian writer Samar Yazbek]

so the notion of ‘race’ as it’s understood in the US doesn’t really work elsewhere

if it even works in the US, that is

so anyway, from what we know from literary sources, the Romans weren’t incredibly dark

(btw people abroad, and especially Americans, tend to have a fixed idea of what Italians look like and act like)

(but most of the Italians who emigrated to the US came from four Southern regions - Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, and Sicilia - and because Italy basically became a united country, like, 20 years ago, it’s still a very diverse nation)

(so what you think of as a ‘typical’ Italian is probably the great-grandnephew of a ‘typical’ resident of one small village in Sicily)

and the ‘typical’ Roman you often see in movies, with tanned skin, dark eyes and curly black hair, probably wasn’t a ‘typical’ Roman at all

those traits are way more common in some areas of the South - where about 37% of the population has Greek DNA because ancient colonies

so while blond hair probably wasn’t really common (we can tell because it was greatly admired and sought after, and people generally like what they don’t have), neither were darker skin and black hair

in fact, a lot of politicians and other VIPs are described in the texts as having light eyes (light blue, green and gray) and some had blond or red hair

others died their hair blond with pigeon poop, but that’s another story

so the bottom line is - like modern inhabitants of Italy, ancient Romans were white, but in many cases you could probably tell from where their family came from, and some were ‘whiter’ than others depending on their ancestry

that said, the European past was a lot more diverse than our instinctive perception of it

there was a lot of trade going on, slaves from conquered lands, wealthy and poor people roaming about, and units of foreign-born Roman soldiers in unlikely places, so that’s something to keep in mind.

As a bonus for reading this far, here is a smiling wolf.

(Also please stop saying those guys are chads, daddys and DILFs. Most of them were dangerous sociopaths who’d feed you to their pet eels if they could.)

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

@ink-phoenix uh. Have at it?

[ink-phoenix]

OP forgot to add these:

Pertinax

Caracalla: (UL) Vatican Museum; (UR) Met, NYC; (LL) The Severan Tondo; (LR) Naples National Archaeological Museum

Philip the Arab: (L) Vatican Museum

244–249 (died aged 45 — Killed in the Battle of Verona by Decius

Quintillus [Marcus Aurelius Claudius Quintillus]

Florianus

Carinus

Numerian

To add to the commentary above, many of the greatest men in Roman history came from provinces outside of the Italian Peninsula, but they were and have since been considered Roman (examples: the emperor Trajan was from Hispania, and Septimus Severus was born in an African province).

Later in Roman history, under Caracalla (who was born in Gaul and of mixed Berber and Syrian descent, so another Roman figure not Italian-Roman) in 212 AD all free men in the entire Roman Empire was granted citizenship. That meant that any Germanics, Africans, Latins, Hispanics, Syrian, etc. were all considered Roman! Regardless of race.

This is what encompassed the Roman Empire:

So you can imagine the intermixing that went on at the time and how the concept or “white” the way America presents it is absolutely inconsequential for the time period we’re talking about.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Commune cities formed, autonomous republic that survived exclusively on Marine trade with Spain, Africa, and East India. Amalfi, Gaeta and Venice in the 11th century were already autonomous maritime republics. Around 1100, Genoa, Pisa and Ancona emerged as independent maritime republics too.

Trade, shipbuilding and banking helped support their powerful navies in the Mediterranean in those medieval centuries. Immigration and ethnic inter-mixing was pretty common — to the point that Italians to this day look as varied and different from north to south and from city to city as it behooves the multicultural and trade-rich peninsula it always was.

[awed-frog]

Thank you for the great addition, @ink-phoenix! 

(Just in case there’s any doubt, the reason I didn’t include them is because I had no idea this post would be so popular and literally screenshotted the first twenty emperors on the chart to save time - and also they’re the ones I know best, there were people there I’d literally never heard of - like Ulpia Severina, I had to go and Google her.)  

[chimeraofeloquence]

Russian prefixes (1/3)

Hey, I decided to make posts about all these prefixes (btw, there`re 70 in total), with examples and significations, to help you understand how meaning of the word changes with its parts (or to confuse you even more). Word formation is what truly makes language learning so much easier and more exciting, isn`t it?

As they teach it in schools, there`re three types of prefixes in Russian language (classified by spelling). Therefore, I`ll make three posts about each type. If you believe that I missed something or if you have any doubt or question, feel free to say it.

part 2 | part 3

[m. stands for meaning, ex. for example] [first of the verbs pair is perfect, the other is imperfect] [outdated and most borrowed prefixes are usually not marked out in most words]

Неизменяемые — Unchanged

The easiest ones. You always write those in the same way — simply as they are.

В-/ВО- : m. into, in, inside; ex. войти́/входи́ть (v) (to come in), вокрýг (adv) (around), вложéние (n) (input), вдýмчивый (adj) (thoughtful)

ВНЕ- : m. out, exo-; ex. внеплáновость (n) (unscheduledness; out of plan),  внеземно́й (adj) (extraterrestrial)

ВНУТРИ- : m. inside, within, intra-; ex. внутриве́нный (adj) (intravenous)

ВСЕ- : m. all, every, whole; ex. всезнáйка (n) (know-it-all, wise guy), всеми́рный (adj) (worldwide)

ВЫ- : m. out, off; ex. вы́йти/выходи́ть (v) (to go out), вы́бор (n) (choice), вы́чурный (adj) (pretentious)

ДО- : m. until, before; ex. дойти́/доходи́ть (v) (to reach /destination/, to come), добелá (adv) (/until sth is/ white-hot), достижéние (n) (achievement), доистори́ческий (adj) (prehistoric)

ЗА- : m. over, behind; ex. зайти́/заходи́ть (v) (to come in), заоднó (adv) (at one, together with), зака́т (n) (sunset), зама́нчивый (adj) (tempting)

ИСПОД- : m. from under; ex. исподтишка́ (adv) (stealthily), исподлóбья (adv) (sullenly /lit. from under forehead/)

КОЕ- : m. some; ex. кое-чтó (pr) (something /particular/), кое-где́  (pr) (somewhere /particular/)

МЕЖ-/МЕЖДО-/МЕЖДУ- : m. between; ex. междуре́чье (n) (interfluve), межвидовóй (adj) (interspecific)

НА- : m. on, upon, to; ex. найти́/находи́ть (to find, to discover), наси́льно (adv) (by force), наза́д (adv) (backward), напóр (n) (pressure), напряжённый (adj) (tense)

НАД-/НАДО- : m. upon, beyond; ex. надме́нно (adv) (arrogantly), надзóр (n) (supervision), надстрóчный (adj) (superscript), надтре́снутый (participle) (cracked /a little/)

НАИ- : m. the most /makes a stronger superlative/; ex. наиме́нее (adv) (the least), наилýчший (adj) (the very best)

НЕ- : m. not, non-, un-; ex. неторопли́во (adv) (slowly, unhurriedly), неве́рность (n) (disloyalty), неблагода́рный (adj) (ungrateful)

НЕДО- : m. under, not enough; ex. недоста́точно (adv) (not enough), недобóр (n) (shortfall), недонóшенный (participle) (premature /baby/)

НИ- : m. no-; ex. ника́к (adv) (no way, nohow), ниче́й (adj) (nobody`s)

О-/ОБ-/ОБО- : m. over, close to, to make, …; ex. обойти́/обходи́ть (v) (to bypass, to get around), обы́чно (adv) (usually), оплóшность (n) (mis-step, oversight), осторóжный (adj) (careful)

ОКОЛО- : m. near, close to, around; ex. о̀колоцве́тник (n) (perianth), о̀колонау́чный (adj) (near-scientific)

ОТ-/ОТО- : m. off, away, apart; ex. отойти́/отходи́ть (v) (to back off), отстóйно (adv) (lame), отда́ча (n) (recoil), отде́льный (adj) (separate)

ПА- /outdated/ : m. related to/incomplete; ex. па́луба (n) (deck), па́дчерица (step-daughter)

ПЕРЕ- : m. over, cross, trans; ex. перейти́/переходи́ть (v) (to cross), переме́нно (adv) (alternately), переýлок (n) (alleyway), перекрёстный (adj) (cross-), перепóлненный (participle) (overfilled)

ПО- : m. by; ex. пойти́ (v, perf) (to go), поспе́шно (adv) (hurriedly), поте́ха (n) (fun), подрóбный (adj) (detailed)

ПОД-/ПОДО- : m. under; ex. подойти́/подходи́ть (v) (to come up), подчинённый (adj/n) (subordinate),

ПОЗА- : m. before; ex. позавчера́ (n) (the day before yesterday), позапрóшлый (adj) (before the last /time/)

ПОСЛЕ- : m. after; ex. послеза́втра (n) (the day after tomorrow), по̀слесле́дующий (adj) (after next /time/)

ПРА- : m. grand-, great-, proto-; ex. пра́внук (n) (great-grandson), праязы́к (n) (proto-language)

ПРЕД-/ПРЕДО- : m. before, in front of; ex. предположи́тельно (adv) (presumably), представле́ние (n) (performance), предвари́тельный (adj) (preliminary)

ПРО- : m. through, over, per; ex. пройти́/проходи́ть (v) (to come through, to pass), провóрно (adv) (agilely), прове́рка (n) (test, check), прока́зливый (adj) (puckish)

ПРОТИВО- : m. against, contra; ex. противостоя́ние (n) (confrontation), противоречи́вый (adj) (contradictory)

С-/СО- : m. co-, together, from, with; ex. сойти́/сходи́ть (v) (to come from /upstreirs/), сли́шком (adv) (too /much/), спра́ва (adv) (from left), собра́ние (n) (collection, meeting), сме́жный (adj) (adjacent)

СВЕРХ- : m. upon, super-, hyper-; ex. сверхурóчно (adv) (overtime), сверхси́ла (n) (superpower), сверхъесте́ственный (adj) (supernatural)

СРЕДИ- : m. among, between; ex. Средизе́мье (n) (Middle-Earth), средиземномóрский (adj) (Mediterranean)

СУ- /outdated/ : m. admixture/likeness/with; ex. сýмрачно (adv) (sombrely), сугрóб (n) (snowdrift), сýдорожный (adj) (convulsive)

ТРЕ- /outdated/ : m. three times; ex. трезвóн (n) (peal), трекля́тый (adj) (damned)

У- : m. completely; ex. уйти́/уходи́ть (v) (to leave), успе́шно (adv) (successfully), уби́йство (n) (murder), уста́лый (adj) (tired)

And the borrowed ones:

a) Greek

А-/АН- = a-/an-; ex. ассиметри́я (n) (asymmetry), анома́льный (adj) (abnormal)

ГИПЕР- = hyper-; ex. гиперакти́вный (adj) (hyperactive)

ГИПО- = hypo-; ex. гипотерми́я (n) (hypothermia)

МЕТА- = meta-; ex. метафи́зика (n) (metaphysics)

НЕО- = neo-; ex. неоната́льный (adj) (neonatal)

ОРТО- = ortho-; ex. ортодокса́льный (adj) (orthodox)

ПАН- = pan-; ex. пантео́н (n) (pantheon), пансексуа́л (n) (pansexual)

ПАРА- = para-; ex. паради́гма (n) (paradigm)

ПРОТО- = proto-; ex. прототи́п (n) (prototype)

b) Latin

ИН- = in-; ex. иннова́ционный (adj) (innovative)

КВАЗИ- = quasi-; ex. ква̀зинау́чный (adj) (quasi-scientific)

ПОСТ- = post-; ex. по̀стмодерни́зм (n) (postmodernism)

СУБ- = sub-, semi-; ex. субти́льный (adj) (subtle)

СУПЕР- = super-; ex. су̀перлу́ние (n) (supermoon)

ТРАНС- = trans-; ex. трансгресси́ровать (v) (to transgress, to Apparate)

УЛЬТРА- = ultra-; ex. ультразву́к (n) (ultrasound)

ЭКС- = ex-, ec-; ex. эксцентри́чный (adj) (eccentric)

c) Other

АНТИ- = anti-, dys-; ex. антиуто́пия (n) (dystopia)

АРХИ- = arch-; ex. архипиздри́т (n) (cunt-chaser /rare and strong swear word/), архисло́жный (adj) (very complicated)

БИ- = bi-; ex. билингви́зм (n) (bilingualism)

ВИЦЕ- = vice-; ex. ви́це-губерна́тор (n) (vice-governor)

ДЕ-/ДЕЗ- = de-; ex. дезодора́нт (n) (deodorant), демонти́ровать (v) (dismantle)

ДИС- = dis-, dys-; ex. диссона́нс (n) (dissonance)

ИР- = ir-; ex. иррациона́льный (adj) (irrational)

КОНТР- = contra-; ex. контраба́нда (n) (smuggling)

МАКРО- = macro-; ex. ма̀кроу́ровень (n) (macrolevel)

МИКРО- = micro-; ex. микроволно́вка (n) (microwave oven)

ОБЕР- = chief, master, first; ex. о̀бер-прокуро́р (n) (chief procurator)

ПСЕВДО- = pseudo-; ex. псевдони́м (n) (pen name, pseudonym)

РЕ- = re-; ex. регенери́ровать (v) (to regenerate)

ЭКЗО- = exo-; ex. экзоге́нный (adj) (exogenous, environmental)

ЭКСТРА- = exstr-; ex. экстраве́рт (n) (extrovert)

[goawfma]

with all the trafficking going on y’all better stay safe!!

[plethodoncinereus]

It’s a good idea to practice this so you know how to do it in an emergency! You don’t even have to be strong (this guy is pretty muscular) to do it, it’s the force of the swing that makes them break.

Alternatively, if you’re being zip tied or tied up in general it’s a good idea to present your fists to the person instead of having them grab and force them. That way, you can present them in an easier to escape position.

Like these:

The tutorials I followed on this website were super helpful and show a few methods of breaking out of zip ties. It take ten minutes to learn and could quite literally save your life!

How to Escape from Zip Ties | ITS Tactical

Zip ties are a common method of illegal restraint. To defeat zip ties, you can break them, shim them, or slip right out of them. Learn more

[thelivingsp1rit]

While this technique is worth knowing in the event of kidnapping or human trafficking, and so forth, it will not work on police issue flex-cuffs, which happen to be far thicker than standard zip-ties, are double cuffed, and have a reinforced centre.

Attempting this technique with flex-cuffs will firstly cut off circulation to your hands due to the proposed need to tighten them, which is dangerous for many reasons when detained in them for a prolonged period of time, as once on, they will not be loosened until they are removed entirely. And secondly, will likely lead to you breaking your wrists as the force required to break free of them exceeds what can be generated by the over-average male, regardless of how strong they may believe themselves to be. Your best bet, if you can get to relative safety first, is to use the corner of a wall to wear the plastic center-piece down enough to break free.

[nomoretocome]

Please read the last comment before you permanently fuck your wrist.

[shaaknaa]

PLEASE READ THE LAST COMMENT BEFORE YOU PERMANENTLY FUCK YOUR WRIST

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

‘eat the frog' method

Hi all, it’s werelivingarts. I just stumbled across this method called ‘eat the frog’, which means you get the most difficult or important task out of your way first. I actually have been using this method for a long time, hope this post gives you a new way of managing your time and productivity! 😜 ❤️

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” – Mark Twain 

[freakxwannaxbe]

It’s so baffling to me how the entire world always talks about the crimes committed in WW2 and always turns to talk about Auschwitz

But no one, ever, talks about Jasenovac: it was one of the biggest concentration camps in Europe, that was so vile and horrible that it made even the Nazi officials cringe in disgust.

The victims were primarily Serbs, Jews and Romani. The exact victim number was never known, because there was a serious lack of documentation (accredited to both the officials in the camp not keeping it regularly and the government of after-war Yugoslavia trying to hush it up), and historians argue on the numbers constantly; but even the lowest number that comes up, 100.000, makes it already one of the biggest concentration/extermination camps in Europe. The other number that historians claim is the victim number is 700.000.

And yet it’s never ever talked about.

[freakxwannaxbe]

Today is the commemoration of all the people who died in Jasenovac, and while there are those vile people who deny this ever happened (as evidenced by the post bellow), I won’t forget

I won’t let you guys forget either

Jasenovac was one of the most merciless and vile concentration camp in Europe. Don’t forget it. Don’t deny it. 

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

Let me also add that NDH (Independent state of Croatia) was the only country in the world to have concentration camps that specifically targeted and tortured CHILDREN. Around 1,500 children were murdered by merciless Croat Nazis and yet nobody even talks about it today when WW2 and the Holocaust are mentions. 

[huffpost]

[cargopantsman]

ASCII art 10,000

[acharacterwithoutastory]

“Sì, ci sono momenti in cui l'idea più assurda, l'idea apparentemente più irrealizzabile ti si ficca nel cervello con una forza tale che tu finisci per accettarla come un qualcosa di praticabile… Di più: se a quest'idea si unisce un desiderio violento e appassionato, allora finisci per accettarla come un qualcosa di fatale, di necessario, di predestinato, come un qualcosa che non può non accadere nella realtà!”

— Fëdor Dostoevskij, Il giocatore.

[theinturnetexplorer]

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

the feynman technique

Hi it’s werelivingarts. Thank you so much for your support in my previous ‘Eat the Frog’ post! Feynman technique is a key to learn anything where teaching is extremely essential to master a concept. Teach yourself and others and actively engage in your studying! 

There’s no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing and they learned all this stuff. There’s just people.” – Richard Feynman.

[russianwave]

Russian Protest Vocabulary

протестное настроение - Mood to protest, Discontent

Акция - Any kind of event, act, action, or promotion, also stock

Акция протеста - protest, literally a protest action

Демонстрация - Demonstration, can also mean a show of something 

Манифестация - Big public demonstration, in some contexts this also means ‘manifestation’

Скандировать - To chant

“Свободу политзаключенным” - “Free political prisoners”

Митинг - A rally

Митинговать - To rally

Митингующие - Protestors, participants

Ура! - Hurrah!

Долой! - Down with them

Протестный марш - Protest march

Шествие по городу - Procession around town

Пикет - picket

Пикетчик - A picketer

Пикетирование - Picketing

Пикетировать - To picket

Одиночный пикет - One person picket, Solo protest, 

Задержание - being detained

Автозак - prison truck

Наручниках - handcuffs

Пластиковых хомутах - Zip ties, plastic clamps

“Я – против!” - “I’m against it!”

Example sentences:

В Москве прошли задержания после несанкционированной акции протеста против принятия поправок к Конституции - In Moscow participants were detained after an unsanctioned protest against the constitutional amendments

Участники акции выстроились в очередь, чтобы поставить подписи против поправок - Participants in the event stood in line to register their disapproval of the amendments.

Мы всегда ходили с друзьями на первомайские демонстрации - My friends and I always marched in the May Day demonstrations.

В Хабаровском крае прошли массовые демонстрации в поддержку арестованного губернатора - In the Khabarovsk region mass demonstrations were held in support of the governor, who had been arrested.

В день годовщины революции они пошли с красным флагом на манифестацию - On the anniversary of the Revolution they took a red flag and joined the demonstration.

Собравшиеся скандировали “Свободу политзаключенным” и “Позор Кремлю!” - The protesters chanted “Free political prisoners!” and “Kremlin, For Shame!”

Первого мая с утра мы всей школой должны были собраться на праздничный митинг - On May Day the whole school had to gather in the morning for a celebration.

Если ты поучаствовал в митинге, то как минимум тебя надо избить, а по возможности и посадить - If you went to the rally, they’d at least beat you up and then put you in jail if they could, too

Страна изменилась: алкаши стали наркоманами, жулики ушли в коммерцию, придурки возглавили партии и беспрерывно митинговали - The country had changed: drunks became drug addicts, crooks went into business, idiots headed up parties and rallied non-stop.

Учителя проводят регулярные пикетирования администрации области и грозят забастовкой  - Teachers picket the regional center building regularly and threaten to go on strike

“Чем же недовольны пикетчики?” - “What are those picketers so unhappy about?”

Таганский суд оштрафовал муниципального депутата Юлию Галямину на 200 тысяч рублей за одиночный пикет в поддержку журналиста Ильи Азара - The Taganka Court fined city deputy Yulia Galyamina 200,000 rubles for her solo picketing to support journalist Ilya Azar.

[All of this vocabulary including the example sentences have been gathered from The Moscow Times Article ‘How to Protest, From A to Zip Tie CuffsThe Word’s Worth’. The article also comes with audio.]

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