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La Russophobe
This was the backup blog of La Russophobe, a Russia blog which was originally hosted on Google¡¯s Blogger network. That blog was born in April 2006 had been visited well over 280,000 times and received over 400,000 page views and more than 4,000 comments since it was created three year ago. Because of massive technical problems on Google, we relocated here in August 2008 and we are delighted with our new home on WordPress.

We are a Not-for-Profit Russia blog recording the rise (and hopefully fall) of the Neo-Soviet Union. We are the #1 independent English-language Russia politics blog in the world. No independent Russia politics blog in English has close to as much daily traffic or links from other blogs as we do. When you join us as a reader or contributor, you join the struggle for democracy in Russia.

We were founded in April 2006 by Kim Zigfeld, who is now the Russia correspondent for Pajamas Media and a columnist for Russia! magazine. Our blog has been linked-to by such powerful institutions of mainstream media as the Associated Press, the Moscow Times and the Washington Post, among many others.

We are team blog, the work product of many dedicated and talented people working for a common goal: To see Russia become a prosperous, democratic, contributing member of the world community ¡ª rather than the scourge, blight and nuisance that it is now.

We publish issues on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, often releasing the issue a day in advance, and we sometimes publish intervening ¡°Special Edition¡± posts to address breaking developments.

Reader comments and submissions are always welcome and appreciated. Be sure that you will always receive the three ¡°R¡¯s¡± ¡ª response, recognition and reward (or retribution) ¡ª when you write La Russophobe.

We welcome contributions from readers and can publish anonymously upon request.

Our creed: You don¡¯t really know Russia unless you read La Russophobe!

Our motto: Russia is the best country in the world . . . except for all the others.

Our slogan: ¡°§¹§ä§à-§ä§à §ä§Ú§á§Ñ §¯§à§Ó§à§Û §¤§Ñ§Ù§Ö§ä§í §ß§Ñ §Ñ§ß§Ô§Ý§Ú§Û§ã§Ü§à§Þ §ñ§Ù§í§Ü§Ö.¡± (that means: ¡°Something like Novaya Gazata, only in English.¡± A Russian blogger wrote that about us, and we¡¯re delighted he did!

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yazaknyazya // August 9, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Meh, imperialism is inevitable, it never left, only changed methods. The eternal war will only stop when most of the world¡¯s population is gone. There¡¯s corruption in Russia, sure, but at least it¡¯s available to regular people unlike in other countries¡­
Misha // August 26, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Imperialism is indeed alive and well in the world. Illegal aliens from Mexico are presently invading the U.S. wholesale, bloodlessly, with direct assistance from the Bush administration, and these illegals are only too proud to note that they¡¯ll assume their ¡®rightful¡¯ role as the dominant demographic in the U.S. by 2047. Corruption in Russia can¡¯t even come near that practiced in the U.S. today.

Should the European Union suddenly decide to work in collusion with Moscow, the U.S.¨Cread, the ¡°North American Union¡± (Mexico-U.S.-Canada)¨Cwill become yesterday¡¯s dishwater.
Vadim // September 10, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Misha, §ç§Ý§à§á§é§Ú§Ü, tell me - what kind of ¡°direct assistance¡± is Bush giving to illegals? Maybe you¡¯re talking about the Wall being built to DIVIDED the mexican-US border? Or the INS raids that are taking out illegals and businesses that harbor them, one state at a time?

Perhaps you refer to NAFTA and other dubious activities of Clinton and his cronies in the 1990s. Yes, some things happened then that should not have. But don¡¯t you worry - this is becoming fixed. As far as demographics - that doesn¡¯t really matter, they¡¯ll learn english like I have - and besides, cuban women are hot anyways. What¡¯s there to lose?
vodkasoda // September 18, 2008 at 7:26 pm

I was a russophobe during the USSR and the Yeltsin days. Now I am a russophile thanks to Vladimir Putin. May God bless him and the Russian people.
reggie // October 1, 2008 at 6:24 am

I have stumbled upon your site by accident and found it most interesting and strange. You give the impression that you are for modern democracy and freedom which I have enjoyed in my country for the last 14 years before which it was ruled by the most racist and abhorent regime in history. I support you in your endeavour to improve the lives of people like yuorselves but I find serious hypocrisy in your representation of level headedness as far as the present US elections are concerned. I am not one that is a serious follower of the US elections but I do find your acceptance of John Mccain and rejection of Barack Obama as probably racist (I hope I am wrong). Please try to convince me that your representation in this blog is not what I think it is.
Sander Pielkenrood // October 13, 2008 at 1:13 pm

I am sorry to say, but you people surely have a ¡®tunnel vision¡¯.

Bear in mind that most Russians are actually quite happy with their leaders. As a Western European, I at first was critical towards the Kremlin, but having been here for years has changed my initial criticism into admiration. Of course there is a lot to improve (and a lot is being improved as we speak by the people you so much oppose to), but the way you express yourselves is not the way forward.

A suggestion: turn your negative attention and attitide towards the USA. There certainly is a lot to write about poor G.W. Bush and especially about the people that brought him to power. Corruption, fraud, the killing of thousands of innocent people, neo-colonialism and a lot more.

LA RUSSOPHOBE RESPONDS:So it¡¯s OK to have tunnel vision as to the USA but not Russia? LOL! Meanwhile, Germans were ¡°actually quite happy¡± with Hitler and Soviets with Stalin. That didn¡¯t mean they were doing a good job, did it you ape? So predictably, you don¡¯t point to any ¡°better¡± way forward which has resulted in more change, and you ignore the fact that folks like Solzhenitsyn and Martin Luther King were also accused of having ¡°tunnel vision.¡± Michael Jordon had ¡°tunnel vision¡± and that¡¯s why he won lots of championships.

You¡¯re nothing but an enabler of Russian failure, pure and simple, and far more dangerous to the nation than any ¡°enemy¡± could possibly be.
bkdunn // November 18, 2008 at 6:13 am

[quote]I at first was critical towards the Kremlin, but having been here for years has changed my initial criticism into admiration. [/quote]

That¡¯s called ¡°Stockholm Syndrome¡± (more or less). I think there¡¯s a Wikipedia article about it¡­