Looking for stuff to translate for Global Voices is getting more and more difficult: too often, I start feeling dirty after just a few minutes of browsing through Russian LJs.
One guy is shutting down his journal because the Russian segment of LJ is now owned by the "kikes." Another is asking on whose side you'd be fighting if you lived during WWII - and gets 1,192 responses. And one of the most popular searches now is on the upcoming Russian March.
I'm so tired of reading through other people's hatred.
And Putin, he seems to be courting this militant segment of the electorate, tries to be more like them and, possibly, lure them away from their leaders, the competitors. And it shouldn't bother him that what he's doing doesn't look nice to most people outside Russia: they aren't his target audience.
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I've translated a selection from Natasha Raslambekova's war diaries for Global Voices - here.
More power to you, Veronica. I certainly wouldn't want to do it, so I'm impressed that you keep it up.
ReplyDeleteMithgol is not just "one guy". In fact, he's so famous that there's an illness named after him - mithgoliosis :-).
ReplyDeleteneeka,
ReplyDeleteknow that this just illustrates how important your voice is to us who don't live in that area of the world.
the voices we do hear are the crazy extremists you are mentioning. having sane, informed commentary like yours from a rational individual is rare and valuable indeed.
(consider this a follow up to your earlier "is anybody reading this" post)
; )