Putinova Rusija

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Pew Research recently did some digging around in Russia to find out how Russians view their own country and their place in the world at large. In April, Pew performed face-to-face interviews with some 1,000 Russian adults of varying gender, age, and location.

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According to Pew, 73% of Russians say the economy is in bad shape while 24% say it is in good shape.

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Of the 73% who believed the economy was in bad shape, Pew found that one-third point to sanctions imposed by Western nations as the root cause. ... Another one-third of respondents believe the sanctions are due to falling oil prices, and about one-quarter blame current government policies, Pew found.

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The Russian people support Putin on nearly all of his foreign and domestic policies. In particular, at least eight in ten Russians agree with how Putin handles relations with Ukraine, China, America, and the EU.

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Pew's research showed that 69% of Russians say the breakup of the Soviet Union was a bad thing for Russia, while 17% say it was a good thing.

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According to Pew, 61% of Russians agree with the statement “there are parts of neighboring countries that really belong to us." In contrast, 29% disagreed.

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Jared Taylor speaks at the Russian Conservative Forum in St. Petersburg in March.


Two members of the white supremacist group whose website allegedly inspired the suspect in last week’s Charleston church shooting visited Russia earlier this year on the invitation of a Kremlin-tied far-right party.

Jared Taylor, who has appeared in the media representing the Council of Conservative Citizens in the days following the shooting, spoke at the Russian Conservative Forum in St. Petersburg in March, where they railed against the “alien traditions” of non-white people. Sam Dickson, a member of the group and lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan, also attended the conference.

“The religion of the U.S. is no longer Christianity, it is diversity,” Taylor said at the forum. “We are to believe this crazy idea that the wild mix of language, religion, people, and races that that is a great and wonderful thing. In effect the United States is committing suicide.”

A manifesto apparently written by Dylann Roof, the suspect arrested in the June 17 shooting of nine people in Charleston, cited the Council of Conservative Citizens’ website about “black-on-white crime” as a turning point in his decision to “take it to the real world.”

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The tragedy occurred on June 19 in a village in the area, reports Pravda.Ru.

According to the newspaper, 45-year-old water treatment plant engineer at his dacha drank a 39-year-old friend alcohol.

During the feast the victim told the older friend that often abroad. This caused suspicion in the host country houses, who decided that his friend - an American spy.

Having lost control of himself, giving the owner attacked with fists on the "spy" and beat him as long as he has not ceased to breathe.

After that, the man himself called the police. However, not to admit to the crime, and with the news that he had "managed to detain an American spy."

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The Russian government has blocked the Internet Archive, the San-Francisco-based website that provides the popular Wayback Machine, which allows users to view archived webpages. According to the website Rublacklist.net (a censorship-monitoring project operated by the Russian Pirate Party), the entire domain and IP address for the Internet Archive was added on June 23, 2015, to Russia's official registry of banned websites. The decision to ban the Internet Archive appears to be the work of Russia's Attorney General, meaning that police determined that the website contains extremist content.

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The Internet Archive doesn't maintain the world's largest collection of archived websites (its 485 billion websites today pale in comparison to the 30 trillion Google had archived as long ago as 2013), but its Wayback Machine is unique for archiving several different versions of a website, saving different copies of the same page every few months or so.

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The only way to slog through the stilted, typo-marred copy of "Russia: Behind the Headlines" is to impose a Boris Badenov-style Russian accent on the stories and edit out the articles the and a as you read along. Sentences such as "Russia's Central Bank has declared the necessity of a symbol for the ruble, one that would eventually be in league with the $ dollar and € euro signs on the world market" suddenly become bearable. Sentences such as "President Putin promised to create the National Russian Language Foundation, which would promote Russian language and culture all over the world" become delightful.

Who is this supplement for? Obviously, the section's intended customers are American businessmen and Washington diplomats who may have gotten a chuckle or a groan out of it before feeding it into their recycling pile. As bad as Soviet propaganda was, it was always good enough that you could hum along to the strains of its martial music, but the amateurism of this supplement carries no tune. It's a bad sign for the Putin regime if it thinks this expensive PR exercise will elicit anything but laughter from the West.

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