That’s one of the pitfalls when attempting to have as fair an open door policy as possible.

I can’t help but be reminded of this exchange (particularly posts 36 @ 39):

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=424#comment-55919

A not so hidden message at that above link.

Not difficult to guess who is behind this likely threat…

Two of those photos:

http://www.tlaxcala.es/images/gal_1118.jpg
http://gdb.rferl.org/AC5BA37A-D153-4D2D-B3C5-CA411E53899B_w300.jpg

PS: Not long time ago Google cache still showed text belonging to that post. (Notice that previous and subsequent entries are on-line following the same permalink structure: e.g: http://englishrussia.com/?p=952 & http://englishrussia.com/?p=954).

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1380

I definitely recall picking up the above link via Russia Today. Some from that era will no doubt especially appreciate the shots.

English Russia appears rather non-political.

If I correctly recall, Russia Today has picked up a few English Russia postings, which include 1970s/1980s pictures of Soviet fashion models.

Without looking more into one of Tim’s points, I get the same impressiion as Andy about English Russia.

On another mentioned point, it’s a bit of an understatement to refer to a bigoted venue as “radical.” The mentioned source often has negative statements presented like: this is what Russians really mean by…. In comparison, were that tact used against some other groups, it would be correctly termed by many as bigoted. This is to be expected from a society that uses the tame word “Russophobia” to describe what’s often (though not always) sheer bigotry.

Spare me the comeback of there being some “good Russians” like Vladimir Bukovsky. That’s on par with how some racist Whites have favorites among Blacks.

I just visit the site every one or two months to browse one or two pages. Not that the photos posted represent something I see very often, quite the reverse, but I just prefer textual information to the pictorial.

I must say I’ve never thought English Russia had a particularly anti-Russian agenda. Funny stuff tends to be at someone’s expense, so funny stuff about Russia is going to be mainly at the expense of Russians.

And, over the past few months there really does seem to have been a change of emphasis at English Russia, with a large increase in the number of posts that show of cool but interesting things about Russia – like unusual military equipment, historical pictures of the Soviet Union – which display the better side of Russia.

Check out the URL for the “About” page of English Russia (http://englishrussia.com/?page_id=2). Many Russians are offended by the content and tone of the blog.

La Russophobe & English Russia both have high traffic but English Russia uses the cover of “humor” to further its agenda. At least La Russophobe has the intellectual honesty to admit that it has an agenda (even if its agenda is radical).

Let’s all hope the level of dialog on Russia improves.