Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with journalist Rania Khalek, of In the Now’s “Soapbox” series, about the 2020 presidential…
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The Pantomime season is beginning in London. These particularly British stage shows are all-singing, all-dancing, slapstick comedies, mostly based on old fairy tales and peculiar to the British sense of humor, or what nowadays passes for that pleasant but disappearing national characteristic.
The Ukrainian regime is about to pass into law, a bill which will totally shut down Russian language media in the country, in spite of many people in the country who speak Russia as their first language. This includes both important media and locally produced Russian shows and news bulletins.
While the move has been praised by many, one member of the neo-Nazi Radical party thinks otherwise. His justification though is all the more frightening.
The Senate hearings into the Russian hacking scandal that took place on Thursday 5th January 2017 came across to me as something of a damp squib.
Director James Clapper provided no actual evidence to support the allegation that Russia was responsible for the Clinton leaks, and refused to go along with Senator McCain’s wildly over-the-top claim that Russia’s alleged interference in the election was an “act of war”.
Bear-hounding is a hunting technique, in which a pack of dogs pursues a bear until exhaustion—at that point the hunter can make his kill. And that is to what Karen Shakhnazarov, a well-known Russian filmmaker of Armenian origin, compared Russia’s predicament in the current geopolitical situation. The bear analogy in Russia’s case is a contrived and, often, derogatory … Continue reading Hounding the Bear: Hybrid Methodology of Containing Russia
The trope of ‘Russian state propaganda’ in mainstream Western media is a persistent one, especially as of late. This continued focus expresses one’s own loss of control as older cable-news models are in decline, the media landscape becomes more diverse, and various web platforms allow younger savvy users to locate alternative information sources. This kind of repetitive … Continue reading State Propaganda? Realities of the Russian Media Landscape
