Archive for the ‘European Union’ Category

Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik

BBC World Service and Its Masters

If you are still having doubts that BBC World Service is working for the British Foreign Office, here’s something to consider. In the weeks leading to the UN Security Council vote on sanctions against Zimbabwe every daily broadcast of BBC World News opened with a lengthy and blatantly biased report on the situation in Zimbabwe. [...]

Posted on July 19, 2008 - by Venik

Russia Punching Above Its Weight

I was reading the latest Newsweek (July 28, 2008) and came across the “Poisonous Relations” piece by Andrew Wilson and Mark Leonard. These two clowns are senior members of the “European Council on Foreign Relations” (ECFR) – a “think-tank” and an online propaganda outlet set up by billionaire George Soros (the guy who bankrolled Georgia’s [...]

Posted on July 8, 2008 - by Venik

Get Tougher with Russia?

British Conservatives are pushing for a tougher line against Russia in view of latter’s growing espionage efforts and new territorial claims. The Conservatives are apparently concerned with Russia’s $189 billion rearmament program and Russia’s claims on the piece of the Arctic (“Britain must get tougher with Russia, warn Conservatives”, by James Kirkup and Duncan Gardham, [...]

Posted on June 23, 2008 - by Venik

BBC’s Obsession with Zimbabwe

For the past several months almost every edition of the daily BBC World News opened with a lengthy report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is really amazing how BBC manages to fill nearly ten minutes of its broadcast with information about a country where it doesn’t have a single journalist. BBC’s questionable journalistic standards [...]

Posted on June 14, 2008 - by Venik

Bush-Sarkozy News Conference

On the stage they looked like two brothers – American Bush and the French Bush. Bush looked tired and annoyed: same old questions from the journalists and the same old answers from Bush’s policy advisers that he memorized and could regurgitate almost without mistakes. Sarkozy, on the other hand, was clearly feeling napoleonic that day. [...]

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 [...]

Posted on February 29, 2008 - by Venik

Western Journalists in Russia: Dazed and Confused

I just finished reading AP’s “Putin is leaving presidency, but Putinism is now Russia’s political orthodoxy” (Associated Press, 2008-Feb-29). It is truly amazing how little Western journalists know about Russia’s politics, economy and history. It is equally surprising how perverted the concept of democracy has become in its American interpretation. Apparently, when a government leader [...]

Posted on February 25, 2008 - by Venik

BBC Looking for Kosovo Compromise

In its latest news report on Kosovo – Russia weighs options on Kosovo – BBC is wondering how Russia may respond to Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Russia is clearly weighing up its options. It must balance its desire to maintain reasonably cordial relations with its business partners in Europe with its new assertiveness abroad… In [...]

Posted on February 15, 2008 - by Venik

Kosovo Quagmire, Round Two

Western media is in a rush to point out that Russia’s support of Serbia on the issue of Kosovo is a result of cultural ties between the two countries, as well as Russia’s desire to regain its influence in international politics. Russia’s failure to protect Serbia from aggression by NATO in 1999 was a humiliating [...]

Posted on January 16, 2008 - by Venik

British Council vs GIBDD (Russian traffic police)

Stephen Kinnock, the head of the British Council in Russia, was detained by police on suspicion of drunk driving. He was held for about an hour and then released with consular help. Work of the British Council in St. Petersburg has been temporarily suspended because the Council’s Russian staff is being “interviewed” by the FSB. [...]