Posted on 10/07/2015 6:05:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Galina Timchenko recalls how proud she felt when the Russian news website she edited reached 3 million users per day. When she reported the figures to the website’s owner, he was horrified.
“At that moment something snapped inside and I understood that this is the end, because there cannot be such an influential resource that is not controlled by the Kremlin,” Timchenko said.
A month later, she was fired and a more Kremlin-friendly editor was brought in to run the website, Lenta.ru.
The shakeup at Lenta.ru last year came as the government was pushing through a slew of new laws to strengthen its control over the Internet, which President Vladimir Putin has described as a “CIA project.” …
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“Still haven’t mastered?” Aside from the constitution-rewriting that made Putin prime minister and then president again, or threatening to nuke Poland and Ukraine, how would one think people like Viktor Yushchenko or Alexander Litvinyenko (if he were still around) view the Kremlin?
How do you know they aren’t paid? Remember, Obama appeals to power and self-interest according to the way he learned from Alinsky. There’s no way a perpetually-going-broke entity like the New York Slimes can keep going if not for some sort of lifeline.
Oh, so the Russians have two major pretend parties that are actually the same party?
Several; everyone in the Duma right now is “United Russia” in all but name. Take a look at what the minor parties stand for: Just Russia is “social-democratic” and the Liberal Democrats are “pan-Slavic” (cf. pan-Germanism and pan-Arabism; they even have a youth organization reminiscent of a certain other regime).
And it ought to speak volumes that the old Communist Party is allowed any representation in the Duma at all, never mind being the second-largest in terms of said representation.
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