[familyop]

I missed a quotation of the Governor of Moscow in my first comment. It is included below.

"As far as content filtering of the Internet is concerned, State's politics intends to offer the public its services to protect them against harmful and unlawful content," stated Romanchenko as reported by Interfax.

http://www.brama.com/survey/messages/37988.html
Excerpt:
"The argument of the governor of Moscow has been supported by deputy head of federal agency for press and mass communications (Rospechat, former Ministry of Press) Andrei Romanchenko. During his Wednesday's speech at the conference entitled "Information security of Russia in global information age," he proposed to create a unified system of the so-called 'content filtering' in Russia."
[...]
"One of the creators of the project 'Stikhi.Ru' Dmitry Kravchuk comments: 'Lately, we"ve been hearing about the importance of regulating the Internet from states' authorities and politicians alike. We simply wanted to forestall the situation in order to avoid running into problems in future. Clearly, we will be unable to scan and filter the entire content momentarily. That is why the decision has been reached to take action first before the government does.and form a model within our site for now.'"

"Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)"

"Pravda.Ru"

It's interesting that Mr. Kravchuk reacted with such official language against criticizing government officials, and that other Russian writers are telling us that the worst is about to happen.

We are concerned, as censorship against criticisms of government was practiced in Russia even before the Soviet Union. And Cubans continue to be imprisoned for criticizing their government.

[TapTheSource]

"It's interesting that Mr. Kravchuk reacted with such official language against criticizing government officials, and that other Russian writers are telling us that the worst is about to happen."

You made your point and cited your sources. Now the Russophiles on this thread are faced with a dilemma. Should they expend energy desperately trying to find a stray article (needle in a haystack) to refute you, or resort to what they know best...ad hominym attack. This should be interesting.

[jb6]

I stopped when I got to Pravda, a communist hack website/news paper that is also very anti-Putin, since the Communists keep loosing to him. I think Pravda's main readership is here in the US.

[jb6]

Here's another credible Pravda story:

A nice scientific one:

Death rate among men highest on their birthdays - 01/24/2005 13:01 The number of acute respiratory diseases grows during a month, which precedes a person's birthday

Spiderboy's dream to walk comes true owing to unique operation

Gee, what papers in America have similar titles...I keep seeing them every time I check out at a counter in the grocery store...now let me see...

[jb6]

here's another good one:

Psychic security department protects Russian presidents from external psychological influence -

Americans have created radiators of modulated signals, which control people's behavior thousands of kilometers from afar

Or better yet:

Leonardo da Vinci's secret lab discovered
And only Pravda has the pravda on that one.

[jb6]

U.S. students say press freedoms go too far

Welcome to 1984 America, the kiddies have finally been well trained.