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Russia: Reactions to LaRussophobe's Interview

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 @ 19:45 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Russia
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Travel, Politics

Siberian Light's interview with La Russophobe turned out to be quite a hit: read the heated discussion in the comments section as well as a note from Andy on why he decided to do this interview.

1 comment

Michael Averko

IMHO, that discussion is now where near as good as the one found at this Sean’s Russia Blog link:

http://seansrusskiiblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/media-critique-on-recent-coverage-of.html

Here’re some other pretty good ones as well:

http://seansrusskiiblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/andrei-vlasovs-legacy.html

http://seansrusskiiblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/russias-stance-on-disputed-territories.html

Within the next dew days, an eye opening interview is due out.

# 2007-02-26 at 4:58 am

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