Cyg:
I love this kind of thing. Polish has the same saying - "oddaæ nied¼wiedzi± przys³ugê". Now I'm wondering whether the Poles borrowed it from Russians, the Russians from Poles, or if it's one of those things that are so old that they came from a common Slavic origin. Cool.
Cyg, on current stage of our history it’s really hard to say. But anyway it wouldn’t be out of place if you and I thank Wends for the conformity of languages we speak. In Serbian and Czech (two Slavic languages I’m trying to study) really lots of sayings I can find analogy in Russian for. Some even spells similar… like Czech “oko za oko, zub za zub” regardless of Latin alphabet. The resemblance may be explained I guess by that these sayings were found ages ago when the boundaries and cultural diversities weren’t so pronounced.
Crow:
Every Slavic child knows that
If only it’s a child… :))))
Crow:
Now, you defend German origin here?
Nope, Druzhe. I’m trying to defend the common sense being as fair as I can.
Crow:
My country is a fu*** battlefield and you trying to prevent me to nicely spit on Germany, telling pure truth.
Wait. Don’t lump everything together. I personally admit that Germany played a large part in disintegration of former Jugoslavia as well as in Kosovo’s separation. But let’s be sober. It’s all about politics. They study their own interests. And it’s not nicely because it’s far from being truth.
Crow:
It`s easy to you to BLA BLA. Russia from time to time has `interestingly good` relations with Germany, selling interests of other Slavs and now official Poland also found happiness serving Germany inside of EU. What is that? Sado-maso, slave syndroms?
Correct. Putin in fact doesn’t give a sh%t about Serbs as well as about his own People. But it’s applicable to all the countries. Well… not to all… ))))) Current Serbian government is about to sell interests of everybody to anybody who has a will of buying it. “Give us the EU. The hell with Kosovo” declares Tadic every day before going to bed. )))
Crow:
why don`t you try at least a little to help to Serbians?
Why not? I do. How about you?
Our government? You must be kidding. Actually that’s our country which needs a help now since Russians have never been in such a sh#t before.
southern:
Actually there is haplotype R1a which is common among all slavic nations and very rare in others.
Actually this is not “actually” but the way you wanna see it. R1a is rare for example among Serbs (that’s why I said that our genetic intersection less than 2%) but pretty common among non-Slavic Baltic people.
southern:
of slavic haplotype R1a among them
Southern, that’s a crucial issue. There’s NO special Slavic haplogroup. How can’t you figure this out yet?! Haplo-group has ever existed regardless of there were nations or not. Human is primary. A priori human doesn’t have any national attribute, he has only genetic code. That’s it. You’re inconsistent with what you’re saying. Do you consider Hungarians are Slavs?
southern:
Did you notice 45% R1a in Latvians?Of course it is normal,since half of them are of russian origin.
Irrelevant. Friend, abstract yourself from countries and nationalities for a second. Put aside religious and cultural features. Imagine that there were three brothers who lived in the same area somewhere in Europe. They didn’t have any nationality but they were all own R1a gaplogroup. After a while one went to the West, another one to the North and the last one decided to live in the place where he had always lived. After some days their scions would say: one “I’m German”, another one “I’m Polish, I’m Slav”, last one “I’m Russian, I'm Slav”. Do you see what I’m saying? I hope this illustration works better for you. About Serbs a bit later… ))
southern:
Supposedely Serbs have the same R1a frequency with Sorbs since Serbs
Wrong. And I generally don’t understand your striving for imposing to Serbs R1a haplo-group. They should be proud of the one they have.
Lukasz:
folowing DNA researches it looks that Greeks, Serbs and Turks are one family. So maybe you should make union ;-) all in all the same blood. Culture is a bit different ... who cares :P
Lukasz, here I’m afraid I can’t share your opinion either. From what I know Balkan Peoples have kept classical (ancient) anthrotype.
Serbians – mostly so-called Serbian cluster of Dinaric type.
Croats - Serbian cluster of Dinaric type, Norid(k), Adriatic (Norid(k)+Iberian)
Crnogorci (Montenegrins) – are the mix of most ancient population of this region and Dinarians, related to so-called ultra-dinaric type. They’re tallest people in Europe and have biggest skull index.
Slavic anthro-component which these Slavic-spoken people have is really insignificant. Assimilation by Slavs of that region was mainly performed in terms of language. Anthrotypes and genes of local people have remained about the same. R1a haplogroup in Balkan people no more than 5%. That’s probably why Srbija fills special place in mind. )) We’re so different, but we’re together. )
BB, thanks for interesting link and good catch.
Lukasz:
yes we are. I just wanted to show something for Crow togheter with our Russian friend Sasha.
Lukasz, I hope we did. ))