2 - http://www.russiablog.org/2008/08/too_many_arguments_not_enough.php For the record, this troll “La Russophobe” has never provided the slightest evidence that they have travelled to Russia or speak Russian. By all evidence, this person or group of persons cannot look up the names of Russian institutions on yandex.ru or other websites, since he/she/they typically derides anyone not having a page on Wikipedia or getting any ENGLISH-language Google hits as « losers ». ... La Russophobe’s pattern, like that of any troll, is to always put the burden of proof on real people using their real names and always ask “have you stopped beating your wife lately” type questions.
3 - http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8450&IBLOCK_ID=35Which brings us to a blogger named « La Russophobe. » It’s exactly what the title says-an English-language blog by someone or someones who truly hates Russia. This isn’t the semi-ironic Russophobia stance taken by our own Aspi Pahars. Rather, « La Russophobe » is a compulsively unironic, humorless hate blog, with said hatred directed at All Things Russian. Sort of like one of those psychos who writes obsessive letters to their local newspaper complaining about « big government. »
Now here’s the interesting part. « La Russophobe » claims very conspicuously and revealingly to be « non-profit. » It also claims to be written by someone named « Kim Zigfield. » However, a local American journalist told us that there is strong evidence that this same « Kim Zigfield » used to write crazed letters to Johnson’s Russia List and elsewhere under the name « Oliver Bronsen, » obsessively attacking tennis-babe Maria Sharapova. This got our curiosity up, so with a little roving-reporting, we also learned that « Kim Zigfield » has used other fictitious names in bizarre email exchanges with other foreigners in the Russia-watching community.
To recap : The site « La Russophobe » purports to be run by an American woman named Kim Zigfield. Problem is, the idiot gave herself away as using a pseudonym by publishing various letters to the Moscow Times as Kim Zigfield using different spellings and different cities of residence. She also has been caught red-handed emailing her rants to various Russia hands using different pseudonyms and email addresses, male and female.
After we ran our « Who Is La Russophobe ? » article, the blogger panicked. First, she foolishly admitted, in her trademark mix of middlebrow thickness and moral righteousness, that yes, Kim Zigfield is a pseudonym, but after all, « Did ’Huckelberry Finn’ lack credibility because the author used a pen name ? » You read that, and you start to feel so bad you think maybe you should just leave her alone. ---------------------------- Pour revenir sur la Georgie et le « travail » des journalistes, voici un article de Mark Hames : http://exiledonline.com/how-to-screw-up-a-war-story-the-new-york-times-at-work/ What has this world come to when the Kremlin has a better grasp of the truth than the free Western media ?
Bonjour, Merci pour ces articles. Concernant « Randy » son nom revient egalement avec le site : « Larussophobe ». Il est possible qu’il soit derriere ce think tank.
Au sujet de la couverture de ce conflit par les medias francais, les correspondants en poste a Moscou sont tous partis sur Tbilissi des les premiers jours. Quels sont les journaux qui ont publies les reportages de journalistes russes qui eux etaient a Tskhinvali ?