[dasboot]

Good read. I find it fair and truthful. (esp. about Mo Dees! et alia)

Also noticed that the author has an excellent command of written English: didn't notice any of the usual idiomatic errors that are currency in the Western press. Pravda....go figure.

If this sample is indicative of the general quality of Russian media, we're gonna have to play catch-up.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Factual political reporting in Pravda! Who'd have thunk it? My father was a diplomat with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. The Russians wouldn't waste their money buying Pravda, so the government posted it in large glass cases on street corners. I remember watching ordinary Russians reading it and laughing heartily at the transparently fictional articles. How times change, in less than half a lifetime. I can't even begin to imagine what the world will be like when I'm an old white-haired lady.