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Russian TV Teaches “9/11 Truth”
On Friday, Russian State television aired an Italian documentary that questioned the official version of what happened on September 11th, 2001. Boris Sokolov questions the channel’s motives, asking why it chose to screen a one-sided film to 30 million viewers during prime time. Exclusive translation by theotherrussia.org.
Sep 16, 2008 | Continued
Drunken Soldiers Ignore Looting in South Ossetia – Rights Workers
The Memorial human rights group has released a new report on the war in South Ossetia, which finds Russian soldiers turning a blind eye as serious looting continues in the region.
Sep 12, 2008 | Continued
Russia Started the Georgian War – Analysis
A Russian blogger has analyzed an interview of a Russian company commander, who was wounded in the war over South Ossetia. Russian troops, he finds, were on South Ossetian soil before Georgia began shelling Tskhinvali.
Sep 11, 2008 | Continued
Medvedev – US Has Let World Markets Down
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev tried to soothe Russia’s falling stock market, while taking a jab at the United States.
Sep 11, 2008 | Continued
Scandal Involves a Knife, Munich, and Putin on Russian TV
Oleg Kozyrev comments on a debacle on Russian state television, where a magic trick broadcast the words “KNIFE MUNICH PUTIN” to millions of Russians. Exclusive translation by theotherrussia.org.
Sep 10, 2008 | Continued
Killing Kenny is Extremist – Russia Tries to Ban ‘South Park’
Moscow prosecutors have decided that ‘South Park,’ a popular satirical cartoon, is extremist, and have petitioned a Moscow court to ban the program. The country’s General Prosecutor’s office has also deemed that 12 other cartoon shows, including the ‘Simpsons’, have broken a law on protecting children.
Sep 8, 2008 | Continued
Russia Considers Siting Nuclear Arms in Kaliningrad
Russia may locate precision-guided weapons in Kaliningrad, the Western enclave region which borders Poland, in response to an American missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Nuclear arms deployment also remains on the table.
Sep 7, 2008 | Continued
Slain Opposition Leader Explains Ingushetiya.ru (video)
Magomed Yevloyev, an opposition leader from Ingushetia who was killed in police custody, presented at the FINROSFORUM 2008 in June, describing the immense pressure on independent news media in Russia. Translation and subtitles by theotherrussia.org.
Sep 5, 2008 | Continued
Journalist Murdered in Dagestan, Russia
Abdullah Alishayev, a Dagestani television reporter known for his criticism of Wahhabism, died in a Makhachkala hospital after he was attacked my armed gunmen.
Sep 3, 2008 | Continued
Russian Opposition Leader Killed In Police Custody
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ingushetia, one of Russia’s southern republics, after an opposition leader and businessman was shot and killed while in police custody. In an open letter, Roza Malsagova, the editor-in-chief of the opposition internet newspaper Ingushetiya.ru, blames Ingushetia’s president Murat Zyazikov for Yevloyev’s death.
Sep 2, 2008 | Continued