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I used to visit Moscow a lot. The first time, someone took me to Bulgakov's apartment and then I read Master and Margartia and from then on part of my soul was owned by the city of Moscow. But I stopped going partly because there were too many exploding parked Mercedes for my comfort.
And now the people who made the Mercedes explode are being treated like victims in the American press.
That's the biggest emotion I'm feeling here. I'm not really enamored of Putin. I am disgusted by American journalism.
Whether or not he's innocent, the press is definitely biased. For one thing, they shouldn't be referring to Nevzlin without mentioning the missing Gorins and dead Petukhov and the poor dead lady who owned the tea shop.
And for another, they should do more to explain party politics in Russia. The way it's being covered now makes it sound like Putin is Franco. He's not. United Russia is what you'd get if the moderate Democrats and Republicans quit and formed their own party.
The American press is doing an absolutely sucky job of covering the case. Americans get dumbed down news. The press is allowing Nevzlin to pose as an innocent businessman suffering political repression, when any fool who can google can see this is not true.
John Gotti tried that pose too by the way, but the press saw through it that time.
Why aren't they seeing through it this time? Only the LA Times has even mentioned that Nevzlin is wanted for contract killings at all.
