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mojowork_n

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9. I was curious enough to do a little digging....
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 08:32 PM
Nov 2012

After the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Правда was purchased by some foreign (Greek) entrepreneurs and run by them for 4 or 5 years. When they lost interest in the project and started another paper -- where those newsy people went (to write about crime and scandal?) -- Правда was on a slab at the morgue for a few weeks. Until it was purchased by the Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF.

(I hadn't known that that party has gone over to the Russia First end of the political spectrum, but you're probably a great deal more familiar with the internal scene than I am.)

When my favorite Russian publication went through a metamorphosis, it was still very similar to the vision of the original founders:

http://exiledonline.com/

(Where I first read Matt Taibbi. Still an interesting source of unique commentary.)

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