[Kazan]

So, you want to rely on what some author tells you is true about Russia, regardless of whatever bias he may have, rather than actually watching vloggers that live in Russia or who are American or Western expats that live there? That hardly is an enlightened way of learning about a country or a people.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

So, you want to rely on what some author historian tells you is true about Russia....

Fixed it. And YES, I'll rely on real historians over yewtoob theatrics.

The Snyder book I just finished, which covers in detail, (275 pages worth), events from about Y2K to 2018 has sixty additional pages of endnotes. Every statement in the text that might need backup is backed up with its' sources. True to academic form, he assumes the reader is as multilingual as he is, so when he references Kremlin documents he had access to, the endnote is in Russian. Nobody can accuse him of bias in translation.

Yewtoob videos by Russian propagandists, (the only people allowed to make videos for public consumption in Russia since about 2012), have either fooled you, or you're in on it and want to fool US.

If you actually know any American ex-pats living in Russia and making videos, name some names so we can check their criminal records here. I seem to recall there are a couple who are wanted for espionage, aren't there? Didn't Scott the kiddy-diddler Ritter just have his passport lifted while trying to flee to Moscow?

[blitz128]

So the author has biases and there for his information is invalid, but vloggers living in Russia have no biases or agendas?

Got it/s