It looks like I've been lost for blogging for 2 months exactly. That's what you get when you have your boss coming to visit your quiet little village... but that's not what I wanted to tell the world about.
You see, I have that stupid way of wasting my time... I read the RSS feed off the BBC World News site. Sometimes it's boring (Who in his right ming would read all that stuff about India and Sri Lanka battling each other in the cricket game?), sometimes it's disturbing... and sometimes it's just plain stupid and offensive.
What I talk about is this article. Somehow British journalism has developed a strict rule of reporting on anything that concerns Russia: "Be biased!". Whenever there are news about Russia, you can count on BBC to say something about Georgia, Ukraine or some obscure little 'rights activist' and other nonsense.
It is in no way bad that they can tell the story from the point of view of Ukraine, or Georgia, or whatever else. Offensive part is when you realize that they never care to tell the other side of the story. The Russian side.
Take that poor country called Georgia. I remember the outcry n Western media when they started the war in August 2008. My country was portrayed as agressor, trying to conquer 'little proud democracy' and violating basic Georgia rights (rights to genocide, I presume). Nobody even asked one simple question: What for? We definitely do not need more Georgian people (half of them live in Russia, it seems), they do not have anything we need and the last thing we needed was another war. Oh, and we are not (and I'm afraid we never were) that monstrous Russian Bear that wishes to eradicate all those who dare to think 'freely'. The truth is, the bear just wants to live in peace without fighting with anyone.
But will the world let us be ourselves?..
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