Выйду! (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} besyonya) wrote,@ 2008-05-28 15:53:00 |
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Они о нас ("Власть")
JUDGING from the news lately, Russia is well on its way to restoring that old Evil Empire image. Military parades have returned to Red Square. Key businesses are choked by corruption or are under state control. Journalists who probe too deeply turn up dead. And critics of the Kremlin are jailed, pushed out of elections or, in one instance, mysteriously poisoned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/a
А несколько недель назад была замечательная выдержка из статьи зарубежного журнала (точно не скажу какого) про "страшных babushka", которых просто жизнь довела... в целом забавное представление о России. Найду - скину.
JUDGING from the news lately, Russia is well on its way to restoring that old Evil Empire image. Military parades have returned to Red Square. Key businesses are choked by corruption or are under state control. Journalists who probe too deeply turn up dead. And critics of the Kremlin are jailed, pushed out of elections or, in one instance, mysteriously poisoned.
But on Russia Today, an English-language news channel begun in 2005 and financed by the Russian government, a more generous picture emerges. In this Russia, corruption is not quite a scourge but a symptom of a developing economy. And concerns about street thugs, poverty and Ukraine’s aspirations for European Union membership trump fears over Vladimir V. Putin’s grip on power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/a
А несколько недель назад была замечательная выдержка из статьи зарубежного журнала (точно не скажу какого) про "страшных babushka", которых просто жизнь довела... в целом забавное представление о России. Найду - скину.
