Today, once again, the lead stories in many American news papers and television shows focus on the Russian authorities’ confiscation of a manuscript critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Any objective mind will see at once that while perhaps unfortunate, this is a little event, hardly worthy of first page news. Most disturbingly, it is only the latest incident in a string of such minor happenings that are given ridiculous amounts of attention by the American news companies. These stories paint Russia in the most undemocratic light possible. And of course it is mostly nonsense. No amount of distorted news coverage can hide the enormous progress towards real democracy that Russia has made in the last 15 years.
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If I were Russian, I would look over at the situation in Iraq with gratitude that America has never tried to bring democracy to Russia!! Thanks almost entirely to her own efforts, modern Russia is a democracy. A fledgling democracy, yes, and not perfect, but harsh criticism seems simple minded or disingenuous to me. Especially when it comes from the likes of George Bush, the undisputed loser of the 2000 election, who achieved power only because of an intentionally undemocratic clause inserted into the American constitution over 200 years ago! But what are the reasons for the frosty relations between Washington and Moscow these days? Anyone with a clever mind and keen eye on world affairs would have to at least entertain the possibility that the real reason has something to do with oil.
We all know the history of the 1990's, when Russia's experiment with unbridled capitalism and globalization lead to chaos and the looting of Russia's wealth by international elitists. Putin wisely put a stop to this, and in doing so, burned the fingers of many powerful interests in the West. The administration of George Bush with the shadowy figure of Dick Cheney in the background began at once to instigate against Russia in international circles and in the American news media. They complained of a "rolling back of democracy in Putin's Russia". The recent frosty relations between Moscow and Washington date exactly from this time. As Putin's success and Russia's wealth and power have increased, this tension has also increased, especially as Mr. Putin insists on thinking independently and refuses to be anyone's poodle. This, in my opinion, lies behind the current unfortunate situation which has even precipitated fears of a new cold war.
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