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Originally Posted by icarus
I don't know about the rest of Eastern Europe, but there has been a massive wave of Russian immigration to Calgary over the past few years. Everytime I go back to Calgary now I hear people speaking Russian in shops, on buses, on the street. I really think it has happened in the past four or five years because when I used to live in Calgary it was extremely rare to hear Russian being spoken (unless it was old ladies speaking Ukrainian which is nothing new in Alberta).
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If I was a Russian, I would run, swim or fly out of there ASAP. Not only they "elected" (using that term very loosely here) their new tsar Putin II., but the runner ups were old-school stalinist Zyuganov and a certified nut job Zhirinovski (sp). That country has no hope in a foreseeable future.