By Slava Tsukerman On April 26, 2021, state prosecutors in Moscow ordered all groups supporting Alexei Navalnyto immediately stop their activities. It seemed the government is starting a campaign aimed at eliminating all forms of protest movements in Russia. According to Wikipedia, “Alexei Navalny (age 44 years) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption […]
Category: Tsukerman on Russia
Russians Comment On Latest American Events
By Slava Tsukerman Although until January 14 none of the official representatives of the Russian government commented on the Capitol attack, the actions of American Internet platforms to block the pages of Donald Trump, and the second impeachment of Donald Trump, nevertheless the state controlled media and politicians were united in their support of Trump’s […]
Russian Comments On The Storming Of The US Capitol
By SlavaTsukerman: Though until January 14, none of the official representatives of the Russian government commented on the Capitol attack, the actions of American Internet platforms to block the pages of Donald Trump and the second impeachment of him, nevertheless the state controlled media and politicians, close to government, were united in their […]
Russia Reacts to U. S. Election
By Slava Tsukerman The cartoon by the Russian cartoonist Sergey Elkin is going viral on Russian Internet. Two peasants in the Russian rural area discuss the hot news: “They didn’t count yet in Pennsylvania and Michigan.” The cartoon accurately reflects that for several days news about American elections completely ousted Russian local news from media […]
Unique Characteristics of the Belarusian Revolution
By Slava Tsukerman Mass demonstrations in Belarus, a country of 9.5 million, which started immediately after the August 9 President elections, continues to this day. Over the course of the month and a half, the protests have many times confirmed their mass character. In Minsk, the capital of the republic alone, more than 200 thousand […]
Sergiy, the Contemporary ‘Rasputin of the Urals’
By Slava Tsukerman Sixty-five year old monk Father Sergiy Romanov is now one of the most talked about persons in Russia. In May 2020, he attracted nationwide attention by creating in Ural Mountains a kind of clerical state, controlled only by him. He started releasing videos, in which he, speaking from his monastic cell, where […]
Russian Media On USA
by Slava Tsukerman Anti-American propaganda remains one of the most noticeable subjects in Russian media. The picture above is published by the Russian website usapress.net, which claims that it was created especially with the purpose to provide Russians with translations of authentic materials about USA, taken from American media. It illustrates “Two centuries of wars: the American […]
Coronavirus In Russia
By Slava Tsukerman The global pandemic of the coronavirus (COVID-19) reached Russia on January 31, 2020, when two Chinese nationals tested positive shortly after returning from China. To prevent the outbreak, Russia immediately closed the border with China, which resulted in no new cases reported until March 2020, after the disease began to spread in Europe. Starting with […]
Fear of Russians About Putin’s Potential Leave From Presidency
By Slava Tsukerman Lately several important events triggered a lot of discussions in the Russian media. In January, Russian president Vladimir Putin made a proposal for making many different changes in Russian constitution. Many commentators regarded some of the changes as directed to making the president’s power absolute, putting all the branches of Russian government […]
Who Are The Victims Of Perestroika?
By Slava Tsukerman On October 4, 2019, Boris Chernyshov, deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Education and Science Committee, proposed introducing the new preferential category of citizens in Russia – “Victims of perestroika”. He addressed his initiative to the Minister of Labor Maxim Topilin. Chernyshov said the victims who suffered most during the reforms of […]
HBO Mini-Series “Chernobyl” Makes a Sensation in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman Released this year, “Chernobyl”, the HBO historical mini-series about the explosion that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the subsequent handling of the accident, received the highest ratings from viewers and critics all over the world. In Russia it became a real sensation, emotionally discussed […]
Russian Media Today, Part One
By Slava Tsukerman What sources of news information do Russians use? For the majority of Russians the only sources of news are the three state controlled national TV networks: Channel One, Russia TV, and NTV. According to FOM (Social Opinion Foundation) surveys, in 2010, 87% of the Russian respondents obtained news from television. Still, despite […]
It is flattering that Vladimir Putin considers NewsLanc an adversary
A report by Doug McVay, Administrator NewsLanc is a frequent target of brute force hacking attempts. This has been true for the past few years. This happens with a lot of sites so it’s not surprising. Unfortunately, though they are brute force login attempts the attacks sometimes come at such a rate that they become […]
New Statistics From Russia of Interest to the West
By Slava Tsukerman On May 25, 2019 the Kremlin sociological service VTsIOM published a survey about public confidence in President Vladimir Putin that was given much attention by the Russian media. The confidence rating was 31.7%. This was the lowest figure for all the 13 years of this indicator. The trust for the president of […]