[Destro]

By anti-American - it means you fall into the camp that thinks "Russia has no right to any interests at all or to any actions to defend them".

The only pro-American policy Russia can have is being subserviant to Western agendas?

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Russia is slowly becoming more anti-American. They owe us a lot for all the aid we have contributed to them since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Go ahead and defend a government that plotted against us before and after the Iraq war. They wanted us to lose the war in Iraq which means they wanted more American troops to die. Russia is not an ally of the United States and tries to undermine us every chance they get, just like France.

[Just mythoughts]

"The only pro-American policy Russia can have is being subserviant to Western agendas?"

Here we go again. You really really need to move to Russia, report back in a couple of months.

[bd476]

Soviet/Russian policy no longer dictates speech when on an American website, does it? Did you ever read this article about assassinated Russian journalists Ivanov and Sidorov? Valery Ivanov was shot while purchasing candy for his daughter.

Journalists Valery Ivanov (left) and Alexei Sidorov were both killed

"...Russia has more than 22,000 newspapers, but almost all are owned by pro-government or powerful business interests that constrain their reporting. The Togliatti Observer is one of the exceptions..."

"...In the absence of a properly functioning judicial system, the question is who will protect the journalistic community in Russia to enable it to get on with its job, acting as a check and balance on power.

Valery Ivanov, the first murdered editor of the Togliatti Observer, wrote about the sacrifice some Russian journalists make.

"In this struggle, journalists are dying. Using every possibilities to compel independent professionals to write according to their wishes, corrupted power uses assassination," he said.

"This is the tragic price that Russian society is paying for freedom of speech and a free press."

Russia's Number One citizen, President Vladimir Putin, has a different perspective:

"Russia has never had a free media, so I don't know what I am supposed to be impeding," he said on 26 September 2003..."

Russian journalism