EDITORIAL
The Cosmic Fraud that is Russia Blog
We’ve written several times in the past about the outrageous pro-Kremlin propaganda exercise known as Russia Blog a/k/a “The Real Russia Project.” Working closely with Kremlin-operated Russia Today TV and funded by the corrupt and discredited Discovery Institute, which Little Green Footballs routinely savages because it seeks to promulgate the teaching of “intelligent design” Bible studies instead of Darwin’s theory of evolution in public school, Russia Blog is published by a Russian citizen named Yuri Mamchur who has close ties to the Kremlin (having been educated in a university run by the Kremlin and descending from a family of Soviet aparachiks), and shamelessly seeks to undermine Western security by circulating a ridiculously false impression of Russia.
Russia Blog’s home page currently displays 30 posts dating back to December 19, 2008. If these posts were your only source of news about Russia, you would not know the the Russian ruble has lost nearly half its value, plunging to an appalling 2.8 cents in value, down from 4.2 cents over the past two months — because Russia Blog doesn’t report facts that are inconvenient to Putin’s Kremlin. You would not know that Kremlin-paid spies had been apprehended attempting to infiltrate opposition political organizations like Oleg Kozlovsky’s Oborona group. In fact, if you put the name “Oleg Kozlovsky” into the Russia Blog search engine, you will learn that Russia Blog has never heard of him; therefore, its readers wouldn’t know that Oleg had been published on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post and received a major human rights award from the hand of film star Sigourney Weaver after being illegally shanghaied into the Russian Army to silence his opposition work. Do the same with the name Stanislav Markelov — you get the same result. For a Russia Blog reader, Markelov’s assassination never took place.
A person who read only Russia Blog would think that the collapse of the Russian economy and world oil prices was a good thing, because it gave Russia “the opportunity to diversify.” He would believe that the Russian economic downturn is largely the result of “investment strategies” that made the mistake of putting billions into “rotten” U.S. securities and not cracking down hard enough on the “oligarchs.” He would not have read a word about the new “Solidarity” opposition organization created by Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov, nor would entering “Vladivostok protests” in Russia Blog’s engine reveal a single syllable about the virulent anti-Putin protests occurring in that city over Putin’s auto import duties. He would, however, see the celebration of Russia’s efforts to boot the U.S. military out of its base in Kyrgyzstan, and read warnings that might just as well have been written by the Kremlin about the need to modify U.S. foreign policy or face even more draconian punishment from the mighty Kremlin. And he would see a video from Russia Today declaring Russia the winner in the gas dispute with Ukraine.
We are glad to report, however, that for all its furious and utterly shameless dishonesty, Russia Blog is a total failure on the web.
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