Well, there are plenty of politicians who went to the Novorossia side, some like Oleg Tsarev are fairly remarkable and brave individuals. One should remember that Ukraine under Kiev junta is a fascist dictatorship, where political dissent is suppressed and even some forms of thought, if publicly expressed, are a punishable offense; at least two political parties, the Party of Regions and the Communist Party are de facto banned.

This is a good piece. The truth is in-between – young entrepreneurs do leave Russia, practically everyone I know above a certain level of ambition or intelligence has either left the country or obtained second residence. Even people who belong to the nomenklatura, Russia’s thieving class, have shipped their kids abroad – some to the enemy countries like the US and Britain – and got residence in places from Montenegro to Britain. I linked to the article from my facebook account because it is a brilliantly written, well-researched piece that rebuts a great deal of enemy propaganda in this case the problem of migration, which does exist and which the makes the Anglo-American media scum gloat with joy – they gloat over all Russia’s problems, some real which they are incapable of understanding, the rest are their own propagandist inventions.

Dear Mr Kraus,

With all respect (in fact admiration) for you I think the problem is not Edward Lucas per se. He is a rabid “zoological” Russophobe whose hatred and virulent racism are extraordinary. On the other, there are many sick people out there. Remarkable is the fact that although Edward Lucas was consistently wrong in his outlandish “prophesies” (I well remember his predictions from 1998) he is still pretty much in charge. He sets the tone and the pitch of the discourse on Russia. The Economist did not fire him. The vile creature spits venom and gets paid for it. In fact it seems he got even more influential. Which tells me that Edward Lucas is not a lone madman but is the voice of the Anglo-American establishments and for the Russians regardless of their political views and persuasions, he is the voice of the Enemy. Another curious things as how those Russophobes (who again are almost officially in charge of shaping the discourse on Russia) are all mingling and cuddling together – the despicable Appelbaum, her Russia-obsessed wicked husband, little Baltic fascists, Ed Lucas, all the vermin bound together in one united league of evil.

“One candidate for Frodo couild Mart Laar, Estonia’s irrepresible former prime minister”

This is both hilarious and grotesque. Extremely obese, pinkish, profusely perspiring Mart Laar, an out-in-the open racially obsessed Nazi (his books on Estonian SS Legion were seized as Nazi propaganda by the German police) is Ed Lucas’s Frodo.

To the blog’s owner. Hello dear:), when you put new links to Ed Lucas’s site you needlessly promote the evil creature by generating higher Google relevance ranking for his web blog/web hole. Don’t do that (unless you are on a hidden quest to generate more publicity for Lucas, which I don’t think is the case).