Posted on May 19, 2008 - by Venik
Why Adrian Blomfield Hates Putin?
Adrian Blomfield – a reporter for the Telegraph tabloid – has a long history of passing his anti-Putin rants for serious journalistic work. I don’t know what the guy’s problem is with Putin but it seems to be personal. Maybe Putin didn’t answer Blomfield’s love letters or something. In his latest piece about the Kremlin’s former boss Blomfield claims that Putin “decorates home with Russia’s public treasures” (Telegraph.co.uk 05/19/2008). I was surprised: that just didn’t sound like Putin, who invested a great deal of effort to facilitate the return of hundreds of Russian art masterpieces from foreign collections.
However, reading the article further Blomfield’s bullshit became apparent. It seems that some of the repatriated works of art have been returned to their original location: the recently restored Constantine Palace on the Baltic Sea. Blomfield is under the impression that Putin lives there. In reality, Constantine Palace is no more Putin’s than Versailles is Sarkozy’s, although both palaces are used for diplomatic receptions and other such purposes.
So, who where does Blomfield gets his information (other than the usual place, of course)? The one and only “source” for his article in the Telegraph is “one artist, who declined to be identified”. At least he should have found two artists who declined to be identified. One artist is just not very serious: what if he was drunk? This really makes one wonder: just what gives the British press the right to criticize journalistic standards in Russia? One unnamed artist told me that Blomfield is one goofy-looking motherfucker, but I didn’t think it warrants a newspaper article.
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