Russian Protests: Western Media Lies
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What the media claims and what the media isn't going to notify you.
by Tony Cartalucci

1. What the Media Claims:

From CNN: "Among 20,000 and 25,000 protesters had gathered in the money, Moscow, Ria Novosti mentioned Saturday, citing police. There have been no studies of unrest and protection has been tight.

Vladimir Ryzhkov, co-chairman of the Get together of People's Flexibility, mentioned 40,000 folks had massed and some 10,000 have been headed to the principal protest venue, the news agency reported."

What the Media Isn't going to Notify You:

Vladimir Ryzhkov is a member of the US federal government-funded Countrywide Endowment for Democracy (NED) "Planet Democracy Movement." NED was also financing the really poll monitors Ryzhkov is citing as his justification for filling Russia's streets with unrest.

2. What the Media Claims:

From CBS/AP: "Hundreds of folks, have been arrested in more compact protests before in the week. Some, such as distinguished opposition blogger Alexei Navalny, have been sentenced to 15 days in jail."

What the Media Isn't going to Notify You:

Alexei Navalny, defended by Neo-Con, Fortune 500 feel-tank (page 18) Henry Jackson Groundwork, was the co-founder of US NED-funded "Da!" or "Democratic Substitute." Fellow co-founder Mariya Gaydar would coordinate pursuits with yet another US NED-funded movement, the Moscow Helsinki Group which heads the "Method 31" campaign led by yet another "distinguished" activist pointed out during the Western media, Ilya Yahsin.

3. What the Media Claims:

From the London Telegraph: "Russian elections: Boris Nemtsov calls for vote rerun. Boris Nemtsov, a substantial profile figure in the country's liberal opposition movement, was one particular of individuals arrested in the course of an anti-Kremlin protest on Tuesday night time. He has given that been introduced."

What the Media Isn't going to Notify You:

Boris Nemtsov sales opportunities the Russian "People's Flexibility Get together" with the higher than pointed out, US-NED collaborator Vladimir Ryzhkov. In addition to getting in the identical get together, Nemtsov's political adviser Vladimir Kara-Murza (of Solidarnost), not too long ago took portion in a September 14, 2011 NED-sponsored function titled, "Elections in Russia: Polling and Perspectives."

4. What the Media Claims:

From the Guardian, Comment is Free of charge: "Obtaining worked for Golos, Russia's only independent election monitoring organisation, for a lot more than eight a long time, I in no way dreamed the president's administration would have interaction in an open campaign towards our organisation – specifically in the week working up to the country's Duma elections previous Sunday."

What the Media Isn't going to Notify You:

Golos is funded by the United States federal government-funded Countrywide Endowment for Democracy. Explained on the official NED.org site:

"Regional Civic Organization in Defense of Democratic Rights and Liberties “GOLOS” $65,000
To carry out a in depth examination of the autumn 2010 and spring 2011 election cycles in Russia, which will contain press monitoring, monitoring of political agita­tion, activity of electoral commissions, and other factors of the application of elec­toral legislation in the extended-expression run-up to the elections. GOLOS will hold neighborhood and countrywide press conferences and publish studies on its findings, as properly as pro­vide in depth methodological assistance to its monitors and other monitoring businesses."

Conclusion

The inseparable widespread thread among the patchwork of opposition groups now filling Russia's streets is their funding and help courtesy of the United States federal government and the Countrywide Endowment for Democracy. The mainstream Western media refuses to acknowledge this, and has been muted above the truth that the poll monitors reporting "corruption" and "election rigging" in the very first spot have been also US NED-funded, such as the regularly cited "Golos." When admissions are created, they are down-played, and words like "independent" are nevertheless employed regardless of Golos' foreign-funding by a federal government plainly siding with Russia's opposition