Rather interesting community appeared on livejournal.com. As I have my livejournal account for quite a while, I can say that people do like to discuss politics not only in their kitchens :) And livejournal is a very popular blog service.
That is the community: The New York Times - Tell Americans and the whole world about Russia
Here is the article in The NYT that started the project and collected more then 3000 comments in livejournal: Putin's Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates Opponents
The point of the community is to let Russians comment on the articles and then translate those comments and publish them in The NYT. And later translate responses from American readers into Russian and publish them in the community. Cool, huh? :)
In general, what I saw was: some Russians strongly agree with the article, some strongly disagree, some agree, but suggest Americans to look at their own democracy and mind their own business.
One typical response:
"It is funny to read this from people who, for 10 years have invaded other countries, toppled the stable regimes that ruled and enforced their rules there. Especially funny to read it if you don't forget about prisons and tortures in Guantanamo. And completely funny when you recall how these people hanged the former president of the country they invaded. Why am I saying this? Because Mr. Putin and his team are evil, of course. And only cattle vote for him. BUT these are OUR problems. And WE will sort them out. And you, you'd better write a couple of stories about why a person who is considered an imbecile by 80 percent of the globe's population is elected for a second term. Also, don't forget to write what are you still doing in Iraq (you have not found either nuclear, chemical, biological weapons there, so stop pumping oil for free and get back home).
- happy_bra"
Interesting, how will this project continue and what will it change?
PS mmmm, can you imagine the amount of traffic to The NYT webpage? :D
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