‘Russia Today’ Imitates America Today
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/25/2005 8:22 PM The Propaganda About Propaganda ‘Russia Today’ Imitates America Today Mark Ames By Mark Ames ( type=text/javascript> //<![CDATA[ email = 'editor&#' + '64' + ';exile.ru'; document.write('' + email + '<\/a>'); //]]> </SCRIPT> editor@exile.ru <NOSCRIPT>editor at exile ru</NOSCRIPT>) Browse Author (142) « Previous (141) When a new 24-hour Russian news channel, backed by the Kremlin, was announced two weeks ago with the stated aim of "promoting the Russian view" to a Western audience, the reaction in the English-language press and among Russian liberals was predictably negative. The idea that Putin, who is notorious for crushing what remained of Russia's free press once he came to power, could possibly oversee a news channel that spouted anything but cheap propaganda was laughable...if it wasn't so damn scary, and didn't remind everyone of the bad old days, when the guy with the waxed mustache was in power... There is a certain Top Secret quality to this project, especially since the Kremlin plan is to beam the English-language news channel ... >> full
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"Chechens should realize that they live in the world of villains and murderers!"
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/26/2005 4:01 PM June, 27, 2005 "Chechens should realize that they live in the world of villains and murderers!" The dialogue of Nadezhda Banchik (a member of the organizing committee of the ODI, the USA), Oleg Mihilevich (a member of the organizing committee of the ODI, Israel) Nadezhda Banchik: The women organizations of the Chechen Republic are going to carry out the "Court of mothers against Putin". Oleg Mihilevich: It is a useless invention. Do not cast pearls before swine! In this occasion Basaev has perfectly expressed, "Pigs grunt, jihad continues". It is high time to throw out all these refined political curtseys. If Chechens have 100 ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, in a trice everybody will pay attention to infringements of human rights... And if Chechens are ready to poison 1000 of the top-quality, racially high-grade American children every day, they will be acknowledged at once and accepted with smiles in the State Department... They are not Chechen children, who in the State Department are ... >> full
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/2/2005 7:02 AM Doomed Russia A letter to the edition One Russian nation actually does not exist. The mentality of the population is rather different depending on the standard of living and the place of residing. The Central Russian, Littoral, and Siberian mentalities differ from each other more, than from mentality of a native of the same district. It is felt sharply enough in big collectives, in armies, for example, where Moscow Russians-soldiers, as a rule, are slighted by the ones from other districts. There are intense attitudes between inhabitants of the rural regions and cities. Now it is practically possible to speak about class stratification of the country and an enough strong one. Rural regions are practically poor in comparison with the city ones, which, at least, have an opportunity of sale of their property, in case of sharp necessity for means. In rural districts houses are forsaken and population leaves for cities to live though somehow. A huge quantity of the declassed element ... >> full
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Sources of the democratic regime in Russia (2)
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/2/2005 7:32 PM Jule, 01, 2005 Sources of the democratic regime in Russia (2) (Continuation, started here) Yeltsin and Luzhkov The chairman of the KGB Kryuchkov was only a small fry in this mafia; therefore his arrest did not have a great value (let alone other participants of the putsch from among the informers of the KGB). And the split of the mafia for separate conflicting groupings happened a little bit later, when the total robbery of the country began and security officers fought among themselves because of a sharing of the national property. In 1993 the October events revealed serious contradictions between Yeltsin's and Luzhkov's clans - and in 1994 they were already two independent mafias, which were grasped each other in an open fight. In order to prevent misunderstanding it is necessary to specify at once, that both Yeltsin and Luzhkov were ... >> full
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Omitting the past's darker chapters
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/30/2005 12:32 AM Omitting the past's darker chapters Leaders want Russian youth to feel national pride, so one author's textbook gives short shrift to thorny topics such as the Holocaust, Gulags and Chechnya By Alex Rodriguez Tribune foreign correspondent Published May 29, 2005 MOSCOW -- Russians remember the Siege of Leningrad--a brutal, 872-day blockade of Russia's second-largest city by Nazi troops that killed 1.7 million people--as a dark, crucial moment in their history. Yet one of the most popular history textbooks in Russian classrooms casually distills the event into a mere four words. "German troops blockaded Leningrad." Glaring omissions abound in Nikita Zagladin's textbook, "History of Russia and the World in the 20th Century." The Holocaust is never mentioned. The book barely acknowledges the Gulag labor camps. And it flits past Russia's 10-year conflict with separatists in Chechnya, reducing a pivotal episode in modern Russian history to seven paragraphs. For some Russian academics, Zagladin's penchant for smoothing over the bumps in Russian history is precisely the reason his textbooks ... >> full
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