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Linus Van Pelt
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« on: November 09, 2011, 10:58:02 PM »

Who the hell are the conservatives, or socialists, or nationalists? Do you mean United Russia, Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia? United Russia is not conservative, Just Russia is not socialist, and LDPR is no nationalist.


Somewhat amusingly, given this exchange, there is in this morning's printed New York Times (I have a paper NYT subscription, which I mention only because this sort of thing isn't likely to be on the web site) one of those weird section inserts that's printed in a font to make it look like it's a section of the newspaper but actually contains the word "advertisement" printed subtly at the top of every page, revealing that someone has actually bought a whole section-sized ad of the paper, which must cost a bomb, and in which the articles are fairly propagandistic but written in a newslike tone, a combination reminiscent of a newspaper in a dictatorship. Such things are sometimes produced, for example, by thuggish Gulf principalities showing off all their shiny new buildings built with oil money. But today it is called "Russia: Beyond the Headlines" and sure enough the fine print reveals that it is produced by "the Russian government's paper of record", Rossiyskaya Gazeta. And it is really a textbook example of the type. For example one of the photos is of a young couple holding hands in front of an apartment building with the caption, presented as a piece of matter-of-fact news, "Residential property is no longer out of reach for most Russians".

Anyway, the section also includes some electoral coverage obviously designed to convince the American reader that Russia is a real multiparty democracy with parties of different ideologies (under the hilarious headline "Russia on the Leading Edge of E-Voting"). This includes a handy chart explaining which parties will be competing in the upcoming Duma elections. And I quote the descriptions of the parties given:

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