[elcid1970]

Twenty-three years since the fall of the USSR and the birth of more-or-less independent access to news sources, and the Russians still believe everything happens due to conspiracies. And America is still `glavnii vrag’ (the main enemy).

In high school we were taught that Russian culture missed out on the Renaissance & the Enlightenment & there is still something medieval about it.

Russians may be Caucasians, but they’re not Europeans.

[GeronL]

Twenty-three years since the fall of the USSR and the birth of more-or-less independent access to news sources

ALL of their TV networks are tightly controlled, and their newspapers know better than challenge Putin directly