MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...
helps the Western media audiences to feel that they live in a prosperous and democratic country.There is nothing new in the "I am good because I am not him" formula. Unfortunately, Russians also often use this self-contentment formula, seeing African countries, the poor countries of the Muslim East, etc., as the "constituents others."
This is an unworthy method that is no longer true to facts. Not all of Russia is poor and rightless, just as not all of Africa is backward and hungry. But EUobserver.com is still using this method. Indeed, why search for a better explanation or try to get one"s bearings in the complexities of life in Russia when the old methods still work?
The attitude of the United States and Western Europe to Stalinism and its opponents is often questionable.
The bulk of American intellectuals stopped hailing Alexander Solzhenitsyn as a hero dissident back in the 1970s, when he questioned the perfection of the modern type of liberal
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