John McCain in Pravda.ru

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

Matt Taibbi, a journalist at Rolling Stone who lived in Moscow for a number of years, was interviewed last night on MSNBC on this very topic.  Here's the clip:

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/53057191#53057191

In short, Pravda ain't what it used to be.  And it wasn't Pravda then either, so to speak.  (Of course.)

I remember the old joke about the guy who goes up to the kiosk, Soviet era, to buy a newspaper:

– Есть «Правда»?
– «Правды» нет.
– А «Советская Россия»?
– Продана.
– А что есть?
– Только «Труд» за 2 копейки.

Best wishes,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey


On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:00 AM, George Kalbouss <kalbouss at MAC.COM> wrote:

> A question has arisen from my colleagues in Political Science regarding John McCain's recent
> letter published in Pravda.ru excoriating Vladimir Putin.    This is  not Pravda, as I gather, the 
> Communist Party publication, but an internet publication bearing almost
> the same name.
> 
> The question, simply, is, "do Russians read Pravda.ru?" -- in other words, did McCain reach
> any Russians buy publishing it there?    If you were to advise McCain, where
> would you recommend his letter be published so that the majority of Russian citizens could
> see it (assuming, of course, it would be published)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George Kalbouss
> The Ohio State University
> 
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