[Reader-list] Anti-democracy: A letter from Russia

[Tapio]

Hi,

"Putin is to a large degree a creation of the media, which could be said of 
most leaders, except that the Russian is a creation of the media that are 
not free. The nature of the lack of media freedom in contemporary Russia is 
quite seriously misunderstood in the West."

<http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Anti-democracy+A+letter+from+Russia/1135223214214>

"the complete transcript of a letter sent to Helsingin Sanomat by Russian 
documentary film director Andrei Nekrasov from the bedside of his poisoned 
friend Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko, a former officer in the Russian 
FSB, died in hospital on Thursday evening, apparently the victim of 
poisoning, allegedly for his criticism of the Moscow government. In his 
letter, which was published in slightly abridged form in Finnish in the 
print newspaper, Nekrasov blames Russian President Vladimir Putin and the 
West for the fact that Russia has been left at the mercy of nationalist 
zealots.
      "There are corpses in the foundation of the new stability [in 
Russia], ghosts that speak to those who risk to venture into the night to 
heed them", writes Nekrasov."

Posted by Tapio, at residency, Sarai


Tapio Mäkelä
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