“i STILL wanna know why we are citing Pravda as a source for ... anything???”
In the Russian language Pravda means “Truth”, and Pravda has been more truthful than CNN, the Washington Post or the excretive, Jew-hating, America-hating, neo-Nazi newspaper called the New York Times.
The old saw in pre-glasnost Russia about the two official papers (the other one being Izvestia, meaning News) that there was no truth in News and no news in Truth. They may still soft pedal problems in Russia, but they seem to have no axe to grind in the USA.