sfnblog: Google launches classifieds search in Russia
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 09:53
"Google has announced a new service for its Russian-speaking users. It would now be offering a classifieds search, collected from Russian-language sites, reported Lenta.ru Friday."
Moscow Times: Conflict opens front in the media
Monday, 11 August 2008, 19:23
Ex-Russia Today reporter William Dunbar: “The real news, the real facts of the matter, didn't conform to what they were trying to report, and therefore, they wouldn't let me report it. I felt that I had no choice but to resign.”
BBC: Pods and Blogs: South Ossetia in social media
Saturday, 9 August 2008, 13:52
Chris Vallance highlights where to find coverage of the conflict in Georgia on social media sites.
Dave Lee: Russia goes to war. Important? Not if you ask the BBC
Friday, 8 August 2008, 15:55
BBC News website, but only the UK edition, seems to be the only major UK news website not leading on Russia-Georgia this afternoon.
Saturday, 1 December 2007, 15:24
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"Moscow’s international broadcaster, Russia Today, is raising eyebrows with a new ad campaign showing the former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s less-known softer side."
Saturday, 22 September 2007, 13:16
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"Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. … " following allegations made by Craig Murray about Alisher Usmanov.
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 10:20
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"FT.com’s interactive feature maps the estimated 233bn barrels of oil equivalent, and illustrates the region with a picture slideshow and audio narration by experts."
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 19:24
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Liberal Democratic party leader "Vladimir Zhirinovsky said Russia should expel 12 British diplomats and all British journalists in the country, telling one: "You are all agents for MI-6.’"
Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 17:40
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Alan D Abbey: "Blogging in Russia is likely to be more accurate and journalistically sound than any of the traditional, mainstream media in that country, according to Israeli experts on Russia’s media…"
China-Japan tensions
Saturday, 12 February 2005, 15:09
With all the attention on North Korea, perhaps Eurocentric blogs like this one should be keeping a closer eye on the increasing “bilateral estrangement” between China and Japan.
The tensions are palpable at the elite level, such as the recent tensions over the Senkaku Islands near Taiwan. A lot of this has to do with access to potential oil reserves in the area.
But they are even more serious at the cultural level. Football matches between the two countries are not a pretty sight, and there are suggestions that “anti-Japanese nationalist sentiment is now being exploited to boost the Communist leadership’s waning ideological authority”.
Much of the Chinese anger geared towards Japan relates to the sense that Japan has not adequatly atoned for its crimes during the Second World War. A major sticking point is Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to the Yasakuni Shrine in Tokyo, where Japanese war dead, including a number considered war criminals, are buried.
The Japanese are concerned about the Chinese military and arms sales to it by Israel and the European Union. And according to Simon Tisdall in the Guardian, Russia is siding with Japan because it shares this concern.
Laughland responds
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 00:19
A letter in tomorrow today’s Guardian:
I am surprised that a simple internet trawl qualifies as investigative journalism for David Aaronovitch (PR man to Europe’s nastiest regimes, G2, November 30), especially since the “trails” he follows about me are ones which I announce at the bottom of my own articles.
But I wonder if Aaronovitch’s Googling led him to use as a source an article entitled “Can a lobbyist for dictators work as a journalist?”, a recently posted attack on me which is almost identical to his own. The home page, Ukrainian Archive, which has links to all the western-backed “pro-democracy” groups in Ukraine itself, also carries virulently antisemitic articles about the Jewish proclivity for rape, and about how the gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have existed. If I am being simultaneously attacked by a former communist who now supports George Bush’s wars, and by raving Jew-baiting Ukrainian nationalists, I must be doing something right.
John Laughland
London
Hmmm… Straw men, mainly. Wikipedia has more on BHHRG
