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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: rant
Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Western Media
The above photo, part of a photo report by Ridus, shows the Anti-Orange protest at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on February 4th. Does that look like 35,000 people to you, let alone 20,000 or 15,000?Because those were the most commonly cited figures … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged chaos, chechnya, liberasty, politics, protest, putin, rant, russia, russian media, western hypocrisy, western media
1 Comment
United Russia Steals Votes, And The WSJ Steals Others’ Work
On December 28th, the WSJ published an article on “Russia’s Dubious Election” by Gregory White and Rob Barry (it’s behind a paywall, but you can read it here). In it they described the most famous argument for the 15% Club (i.e., … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged elections, politics, rant, runet, russophobes, russophobia, western hypocrisy, western media, WSJ
13 Comments
Kremlin Oligarch Brutally Censors Long-Suffering Russian Media (From Printing Gratuitous Profanities)
Imagine a respected American financial newspaper such as the WSJ writes an article investigating elections fraud in favor of the Democrats. To illustrate the rightness of their point, they include a photo of a ballot for the Republicans that – … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged berezovsky, humor, kommersant, liberasty, politics, rant, russia, russophobes, uk, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
35 Comments
Time To Shove Off! And What Then?…
If I had a cent for every Russia story from the past week that featured the (conclusively debunked) “sixth wave of emigration” meme… And if wishes were fishes. Still, the coverage of Russian reactions to Putin’s return does demonstrate the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged demography, idiotism, liberasty, politics, rant, russia, russian diaspora, russians, russophobes, western media
21 Comments
The Stalinist Drug Warrior: The Real Medvedev, Part 2
Following on from my last post in which I revealed the neoliberal, anti-Russian inclinations of Dmitry Medvedev (pictured left, sporting his new Hitler mustache), let us know consider another question – what to make of his much vaunted liberalism, his humaneness, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged drugs, idiotism, medvedev, politics, putin, rant, russia, translation
18 Comments
DAM, What A President!: The Real Medvedev, Part 1
A recent study by Laura Bottazzi et al. at the University of Bologna, Italy confirmed a pretty obvious fact of international business. Far from being the rational agents of standard economics, objectively focusing on those countries offering the best return on … Continue reading
A Tale of the Beggar And The Billionaire
Imagine the following scenario. In the US, a black homeless man “robs” a bank. He only takes a single $100 bill out of the wad of cash offered, because he was hungry and had to pay to stay at a … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged corruption, crime, khodorkovsky, liberasty, rant, russia, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
11 Comments
Russia’s Brain Drain Abates, Just As Western Media Starts Hyping It
Everything’s going badly in Russia. Medvedev’s reforms are failing. The economy isn’t growing. It is moving from authoritarianism to totalitarianism (in stark contrast to civilized Western countries), and the motto “We cannot live like this any longer!” once again becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged demography, human rights, idiotism, liberasty, politics, rant, russia, russian diaspora, russians, russophobes, western media
44 Comments
Edward McMillan-Scott, Lord Of Western Tropes On Russia
Over the years, I have come across my fair share of liars and incompetents writing about Russia in major Western media outlets. But rarely have I encountered such heights of self-righteous arrogance and clownish, pathetic ignorance as Edward McMillan-Scott displays in … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged Guardian, human rights, liberasty, rant, russophobes, uk, western hypocrisy, western media, yeltsin
11 Comments
La Russophobe Strikes Back
Letters, we get letters, we get lots of cards and letters every day. Even fan mail from La Russophobe! Letter to the Editor: Reply to “Given Free Publicity On NTV, Khodorkovsky Only Incriminates Himself Further” (06/11/2011). In a recent blog post, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged corruption, crime, guest, human rights, humor, khodorkovsky, ltte, mailbag, oligarchs, politics, putin, rant, russophobes
8 Comments