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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: western hypocrisy
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
A Quick Note On Russia’s Duma Elections 2011
On reading Western commentary on the upcoming Russian Duma elections, I realized that they can’t decide between two narratives: either the popularity of United Russia is sinking faster than Herman Cain’s following his sex abuse scandals, thus meaning that it … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, opinion poll, politics, russia, russophobes, united russia, western hypocrisy, western media
187 Comments
Putin The Peaceful?
At least, surely more so than Obama, winner of 2009′s Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s do it by the numbers. Russia under Putin fought one war, in response to Georgian aggression against Ossetians with Russian citizenship and UN-mandated Russian peacekeepers. In contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged china, obama, putin, russia, war, western hypocrisy, western media
77 Comments
Mark Sleboda Appears On Eurasian TV
You may remember Mark Sleboda from this article in which he talked about the inherent ridiculousness of Western countries like the US and Britain criticizing Russia when they happily engage in the same abuses. He now has his own segment at … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged capitalism, globalization, human rights, mark sleboda, politics, protest, rise of the rest, russophobia, western hypocrisy, western media
5 Comments
REPRINT: Bourgeois UK Police State Cracks Down On Freedom Protesters
The British like to interfere in other countries’ sovereign affairs, usually on the pretext of “human rights abuses” or somesuch made up nonsense that they then use to pressure them or outright bomb and attack them with the rest of … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, islam, uk, western hypocrisy, western media
12 Comments
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
Interview with Mark Chapman (The Kremlin Stooge)
Next in our line of Watching the Russia Watchers interviews is Mark Chapman, the fiery Canadian sailor who’s been blazing a path of destruction through the fetid Russophobe ranks since July 2010. That was when he first set up The Kremlin Stooge, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged arctic, blogging, canada, chechnya, corruption, futurism, geopolitics, history, human rights, international relations, interview, khodorkovsky, liberasty, medvedev, oligarchs, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, sochi, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
15 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