And for those who don't know of LR, you may come away from reading this interview thinking the girl has a point. She probably does, but it's so buried beneath a highly biased agenda and stalking and name calling that who wants to listen to her? There are people capable of being both objective, decent and critical of the Kremlin (like, oh, Jerome...)
Though I guess in the interest of diplomacy, I'll throw her a bone for this:
13. If you could advise the Russian government to do one thing, what would it be? Have Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Putin switch places.
Have Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Vladimir Putin switch places.
(...though for all the wrong reasons...)
Anyway, thanks for coming to ET. I hope you stop by and post some non-LR stuff here in the future. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
There are people capable of being both objective, decent and critical of the Kremlin (like, oh, Jerome...)
I do appreciate them.
(And that quote about Putin and Khodorkhovski did jump at me too - and it is one I actually agree with) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Establishing full control over Yuganskneftegas-the company at the heart of Khodorkovsky's oil empire- included such episodes as the unsolved murder of the town mayor (and bitter adversary of Yukos) in 1998, who was gunned down on Khodorkovsky's birthday.
Isn't this the same kind of false dilemma that will guarantee that Putin (and assorted KGB) will be elected for the foreseeable future? Reducing the conceivable choices to former spooks and "former" gangsters?
BTW, La Russophobe considers Gaidar and the Locusts some sort of "move towards democracy"- 'nough said.... Where's Mark Ames when you need him...? The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
Yeah, I was confused about that too. I just figured I'd accidentally brain-washed him or something... Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
As for wasting my time with LR - I should point out that this is the first in a series of interviews with people who blog about Russia, and I'll be speaking to both pro- and anti- Kremlin bloggers (as well as bloggers of pretty much every shade in between).
Really, I'm just asking the questions and providing the platform - its up to the interviewees to convince you of their wisdom. Or lack thereof...
You have professional haters everywhere. For French haters, please go to http://merdeinfrance.blogspot.com/, you'll feel dirty enough.
I quit halfway through the above interview. Anyone who will interchangeably use the words "Russia", "the Russians", "Putin", as if the nation, the people, the regime, the autocrat, etc, were all the same, isn't worth more than 2 minutes of my time.
