The Death of the Dissident

This nationalism in russia and way russia been acting looks so much like way nazi germany rised. Alot of folks making sound like Russia innocent but in reality there been state sanctioned murder on anyone who talks bad about dictactor putin and his puppet president who has no power. This is not rise of Soviet Union but this nationalism and way russia been acting like way nazi germany did but without all that racial killings and holocost. Open your eyes this is so familair and Russia is going do whatever it takes bully eastern european nations who want to join nato which is any nation right but according to russia those nations have no rights. Russia bully nations too using her gas. The new indiana movie pissed off russian leadership and any thing that small seem to make them mad sounds like nazi germany leadership but if western europe continues with impeasement like they did to nazi germany the end result will be disaster. Europe always been known for appeasement they did it with hitler and now putin which is greatest threat to the world as long he going around murdering X kbg agents who willing to talk to the west or innocent journalist who show darker side of putin. I never trust Russian state TV reporters anything under State control ( propaganda)

I grew up in the former USSR and I've witnessed much of the turbulent 90s. Those were awful times and I am very happy to see economic growth and an emerging middle class in Russia. However, I do not see how it was a US-driven plan to devastate Russia economically. Let's not forget that it was the old party elite and the government employees in the position of power that robbed their own people blind in massive sell offs of state property and unlawful privatization projects. Current hysteria and paranoia of the Russian state news channels (there are not very many independent ones, right?) is part of the Kremlin's strategy to create a common enemy and shift the public attention from a near totalitarian regime at home onto the US which is all of a sudden out to get Russia. The Georgian war is another planned patriotism booster. Come on now, crossing the border into a tiny country and overwhelming Georgian military with sheer numbers is not that much to celebrate. This current government-led chest thumping is used to keep Russians from pondering the following questions: who really elected the new president in March, why is Russia the most dangerous place for journalists, what happened to independent media and how does the life quality in the countryside compare to that in the city. Russian government is quick to take credit for the economic growth, while it's not all that difficult to out-muscle all of the competition in the energy sector (BP is the latest example) and reap the benefits of the world's increasing demand. I won't be surprised if there isn't already a mandatory Little Putinci organization for the elementary school kids.

Putin will use anything to blame the world except themselfs because they know by using this to make public hate the outside world is a tactic to assert control on them and assure loyality from public which is sad I see nazi germany all over again the new Russian national empire is going to rise and west has to be prepared that if russia invades ukraine we will back those innocent nations. then what is the folks on these forums still going to blame anyone but the russian for the next country she invades???? This is just nazi germany again wake up but most folks here probly russians

I agree with Vyacheslav Igrunov ??? I was also disenchanted with how Western countries reported on and supported Georgia during the August war. Western media barely covered it at first, and they almost totally disregarded eye-witness accounts describing how American soldiers were included with the Georgian troops during the fighting. One little girl, another eye-witness, was allowed to appear briefly on Fox but then she got shouted down by the announcer. The first Western stories insisted Russia invaded poor innocent Georgia without provocation. Hello? Then Western news articles supported Saakashvili, that vicious little ankle-biter, both spiritually and politically, and we kept propping him up as our ???friend??? and an ???example of democracy??? when he was anything BUT. The Georgians themselves knew what kind of an ???example??? he was when he put down protests in their capitol. And the news here in the States didn???t mention how, the very day that the Georgians invaded South Ossetia, the American-led fleet involved in war games in the Atlantic promptly changed course and steamed for the Persian Gulf (that news I found off of a business site in Europe, not in the States). Was Saakashvili supposed to keep the Russians occupied long enough for us to bomb Tehran? And it???s not just me asking. Well, it didn???t work, if that was the plan. The Georgians lost in less than a week, which shocked us and even convinced the Israelis, who had helped arm Georgia, to say ???It wasn???t us! We???re good friends with the Russians! Here, have some nanotech!??? But how much of that was in the mainstream news? And now the latest stories are all about how Russia is being paranoid because they don???t like it when we place missiles on their doorstep? Well, we didn???t like it either when the Soviets started placing missiles in Cuba, but I guess that doesn???t count. Gosh, who would have thought that the Russians would be so unreasonable!
Before August, I had no idea what was happening in the Caucasus and I didn???t care. I accepted all the propaganda - er ???news??? - here in the States about Russia and the supposedly beneficent NATO activity. But I don???t accept it anymore, not without a bushel of salt. Western media coverage proves, yet again, to be grossly slanted and inaccurate. I???m not the only American who feels this way, either; a lot of us are reading and posting on foreign news sites ??? especially if they are on a completely different continent. They have their own slant to the news, but when foreign stories are overlapped with American news, a kernel of truth can be discovered. It won???t ever be discovered by following American or even Western news alone, which is sad. What surprises me now is that you are surprised when Russia looks in other directions than just to the West for friends. We haven???t exactly proven ourselves to be friendly.

Russian liberals are betrayed by Western media, which decided that support of Saakashvili regime is more important then truth
West can forget about support inside Russia. Only pure pragmatism and money, but no acceptance of western values anymore, which are in closer look all lie

There's a crucial mistake in viewing current US administration as the "voice of the West".

It isn't. Ask Russians and, especially, liberal minded ones, what do they think of European Union. It would reverse your conclusions upside down.

George W. Bush has actually stolen American dream in favour of rather commercial and ideological interests. Liberal minded Russians are frustrated by total inability of US & UK political elite (and mass media as well) at least to consider interests and arguments of Russians. They would rather live in illusionary world of "peaceful and democratic Georgian president Saakashvili engaged in a liberty struggle with resurgent autocratic Russia". And would defend those illusions with energy of Al-Kaeda militants.

It appeared to be something different in the time of Clintons. Russians have seen them unfair in treating Serbia but that was more of an exception than a rule.