March 27, 2006

Two days ago mass-media announced that the man who who was initially pledged guilty in the crash in which the Altai region governor had died had been discharged. Honestly, It was a surprize to me. People are usually reluctant to struggle for their rights. In this particular situation it was a bit different. People (car owners, rather) got tired and irritated of 'big-deals' driving with their rotating beacons on and thinking that they may infringe all road and traffic rules. That's why this cased caused a lot of reaction - there were actions of protest in some of big cities all over Russia (they just drove out on streets - and autocades of protesters just blocked the traffic). It helped, finally as we can see.

March 23, 2006

Interesting things are happenning... I'm 100% sure that a reasonable person, who is smart enough to separate the husk from the grain. Just read those two articles:

Bully boy of Belarus

and

Poll landslide for Saakashvili in Georgia

For some reason they think that 82% in Belorussia is fake result to suppress democracy. But 90% in Georgia is a democratic will of Georgian people wjo decided to dethrone the previous regime.

Double standards... the most proper definition that comes to my mind.

March 22, 2006

I dont' think the story with the elections in Belorussia is over. They (don't aske me who) will try to claim the elections were not fair. They'll also try to propagate an opinion that there a lot of people in Belorussia objecting against the results and asking for freedom. Freedom... strange thing... freddom from whom and with what aim? Secondly, I don't think it's easy to fake 30+% of votes to win the elections by overwhelming majority (82 something %). So... let's see...

March 21, 2006

My first blogpost seemed to me very politicized. So I want to stress that my blog has no political orientation. It's just personal thougts of a man who wants to 'untie' people from imposed views on the life and events happenning in Russia. This country hasn't become a less intriguing and enigmatic to Western people after the USSR collapse. I'd say contrary - now it's going to be an epicenter of new upcoming and serious events.

March 20, 2006

"Why is it called truth? Does it mean that somebody has been lying to us all that time?" - that's what you are likely to ask when visiting my blog for the first time. The answer is "I don't know" or "I don't wanna know" or even "I know but I don't wanna tell you."
Watching news on tv, listening to radio, reading newslines at internet portals, I've noticed that, intentionally or not, but somebody's invisible hand (or pen or lash) changes a bit the facts they're telling us. I've lost my patience finally and decided to start telling you how it is in reality, at least how I view it since I'm here, at the other side of TV screen, right where all these thing are happenging and being reported to other people which are sitting very far awway in their chair in front of their TV sets.
Who am I? Well, I'll have a chance to know more about me through my posts (an observant reader can even build my more or less correct portrait in his mind). I was born in Russia... more than a quater of a century ago. It's enough to strat having my own opinino on the events I've benn through as an involuntary witness.
Is this worthwhile reading? It's up to you. Moreover, Idon't (and can't) make anybody read it. I'd say I post here more for myself than anybody else (A bit selfish, I know... but it's true)
What are you to judge what the truth is and what it is not? I don't intend to judge - I'm just sharing my views, my thoughts which, in my opinion, are closer to reality than the things we're being constantly told from TV screens.
Can you tell us something which we're not aware of and can be of interest? Well... have you heard about a car accident happended in Russia in which a governor of one of Russian regions died as weell as his driver? The court pledged guilty a man who was driving a car and witnessed the accident - the man did not infringe any road rules in contrary to the governor's driver who infringed at least three serious road rules. You'll ask why, why the court pledged him guilty. The answer is the name of mu blog. That's Russian reality, Russian truth.... more stories to come, by the way.
I've always wanted to know ... about Russia. Can you help me and answer my questions? Of course, I can, with pleasure. OK. Let's stop for a while. Take care!