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Entry: Why is Western Media Bashing the New Russia? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/why_is_western_media_bashing_the_new_russia#1514 Post contents: "Poor old Gaidar!" is all I can say to him for thinking that the Soviets went away. Russia gets such dreadful coverage precisely because the Soviets, or the Soviet elite, has never left the Kremlin. Unlike Eastern Europeans, Russians have not allowed Soviet dissidents to take the political power from the Soviet elite. This is why many of the old Soviet values are still alive in Russia today and some of them are thriving - human life is still worth nothing, courts continued to be a political instrument of the government, the power of the big boss in the Kremlin is absolute and the huge governmental machine has never been so corrupt and bureaucratic. That is why Russia gets such a bad press. Sent at: 2009 01 07