Posted on 09/14/2009 8:28:37 AM PDT by fiscon1
In an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin. As a public service, we're running it here and ask for your help in translating it.
(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...
Conde Nast owns Vanity Fair and GQ as well as other publications, including Russian versions of GQ, Glamour, Tatler and Vogue. On July 23, Jerry S. Birenz, one of the company’s top lawyers, sent an e-mail memo to more than a dozen corporate executives and GQ editors.
“Conde Nast management has decided that the September issue of U.S. GQ magazine containing Scott Anderson’s article ‘Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power’ should not be distributed in Russia,” Birenz wrote.
This is pretty much what we have come to expect from the global socialist media.
I can halfway translate it, but I haven’t been able to find the English translation that they say is ready.
Do you have the link for that?
All we need do is “Re-set” (or “Over-load” per HRC).
I thought GWB was able to look into Putin’s eyes and see his soul?
” “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.
“I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm
Conde Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin.Maybe they heard about the polonium caper.
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