Tuesday, December 15, 2009

On VTB and Navalny

I still don’t get how it came to be that still NO SINGLE English-language mass media (indexable by Google News) have written anything on the VTB-related suspected-corruption multi-million story unveiled by blogger Navalny. Loads of Russian media headed by prominent-famed flagshippers like Vedomosti paid attention to the case in one or another form.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

On acts by Russian authorities

Recently Russian blogger and liberal activict Alexey Navalny revealed a major corruption within the state-conlrolled bank VTB which involves hundreds of millions of dollars of stakeholders’ money which include people’s money drawn by IPO (VTB stocks recently dropped due to crisis). Navalny provides numerous written proofs filed as official appeals to the authorities. This caused massive reaction within Russian-speaking blogosphere and mass media. No Western media at the moment reacted judging by http://news.google.com/news/search?q=navalny