[jorgecastillo]

For starters it's not very crowded on usernames, so I got to use my 'namelastname' as username, also I don't think I've seen any ads so far. Another aspect of the service I really like, is that it has less magic than Gmail. I always get email labeled wrong in Gmail. At first I tried to label them properly and expected Google to get them right over time, now I don't bother. I would definitely pay for this service if this was an option. To be fair Russia along with the US, France & Japan is one of my favorite countries, so I might be very biased.

[oneloop]

> Another aspect of the service I really like, is that it has less magic than Gmail. I always get email labeled wrong in Gmail. At first I tried to label them properly and expected Google to get them right over time, now I don't bother.

While I never tried yandex's email, I do share the impression that gmail is too magical and shouldn't be labelling my emails outside of the explicitly rules that i have set.

> To be fair Russia along with the US, France & Japan is one of my favorite countries, so I might be very biased.

Haha same here! It makes me so sad the propaganda war that russia and the us are having. Those two countries are similar in so many ways. Russia was unfortunate that communism had a successful revolution, so they are currently some 30 years behind culturally :-/

[quirkafleeg]

> Russia was unfortunate that communism had a successful revolution, so they are currently some 30 years behind culturally :-/

That "unfortunate" revolution took Russia from the feudal age into the nuclear age in a single generation, so without it they'd presumably be about 100 years behind the USA.

This may explain why your negative opinion of the USSR/communism is not necessarily shared by Russians.

The most popular leaders of the 20th century, as voted by Russians, are Brezhnev, Lenin and Stalin, while the most unpopular are Gorbachev and Yeltsin, responsible for the collapse and break up of the USSR.

Only a rigged and unfair election prevented the Communist Party leader being elected president by the people of Russia in 1996, after they had experienced the joys of several years of capitalism.

In 2016, a quarter of a century after the breakup of the USSR (which happened against the express wishes of the Soviet people), the Communist Party is still the second most popular party in Russia, and most Russians (as demonstrated in repeated polls) would like to see the restoration of the USSR.

As for Yandex, the founder started in business in the USSR, and he is not Russian.

[dragonwriter]

> The most popular leaders of the 20th century, as voted by Russians, are Brezhnev, Lenin and Stalin, while the most unpopular are Gorbachev and Yeltsin, responsible for the collapse and break up of the USSR.

Brezhnev is more responsible for the collapse of the USSR than either Gorbachev or Yeltsin (or anyone else, except maybe Yuri Andropov.) Oh, sure, he was dead and the other two were around when it happened, but it was his intervention in Afghanistan that essentially sealed the fate of the USSR.

[PerfectDlite]

> Those two countries are similar in so many ways.

Like invading and annexing their neighbours?

[oneloop]

Exactly. Although to be fair to the US, their military is quite a bit more powerful, so they've already pacified their neighbours and instead invade countries half way around the globe. Russia can't stretch itself as much. But yeah, same principle.

[PerfectDlite]

So, US invaded and annexed someone in past 50 years? How's the weather in your version of reality?

[oneloop]

Not sure if trolling or just ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasions

CTRL-F united states, 38 FUCKING results.