Aug 26 2009
Bending the needle on the irony detector . . .
From Interfax, courtesy of today’s Johnson’s Russia List . . .
Russian Communists protest against ‘one-party monopoly’ on TV
Moscow, 20 August: About 1,000 activists from the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) and from some other left-wing organizations held a protest campaign (with the slogan) “No to an empire of lies” by the main entrance of the VVTs (All-Russian Exhibition Centre) . . . .
State Duma deputy Vladimir Kashin opened the protest and accused the “backwaters of Ostankino (TV and radio centre)” of brainwashing and misinforming the Russian people.
For his part, (Sergey) Potapov, secretary of the CPRF’s Moscow Committee, said that “a one-party monopoly can be observed on the majority of television channels”. . . .