How the Russia investigation looks from Moscow

This article was eye opening for me.

"For [Russians], it is maddening to watch the news organisations they so admire building Mr Putin into an all-powerful Bond villain, thereby elevating his stature... The aim of Mr Navalny’s campaign, by contrast, is to show that the king is naked, not to dress him up in armour."

> This was confirmed by the Russian foreign ministry. BuzzFeed updated its story, but did not take it down.

Is that why Trump fans call this kind media "Fake News". It could have been a mistake (an unnamed government official said...), but refusing to take it down, after they knew it was untrue probably goes into PR and "fake" territory.

> But the investigation of Russian intervention is not just a disgrace, it’s a collective eclipse of reason, it’s lunacy.”

Interesting perspective. I never quite thought about it, but now wonder what do other countries think about "the Russians" PR campaign. Russians make fun of it, do West Europeans, Indians, Chinese, Australians, Africans, South Americans believe it?

> [from the comments] The Democrats got their noses bent so out of shape over losing the election, that they've wasted a year chasing Russian shadows instead of organizing a credible opposition to Trump. As a result, their opposition has been ineffective.

I've been saying the same for a while. There have been plenty of anti-Trump marches, lots "Russia" articles. Google, Facebook and Twitter are bent out of shape trying to filter out fake news. (Wonder if they bumped BuzzFeed down a few notches since deliberately spread misinformation, I am not betting on it). Certainly a lot of energy and time spent. But why isn't there something more constructive, like say take back "the jobs" narrative or any attempt to bring back the people from the Rust belt states which were key for the election. Well I take that back, they tried something, but it's kind of a lame attempt and it hasn't really been noticed by anyone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16084132/de... and they sound like Trump (Well because Trump really took the best part of Democrat's message right under their noses and ran with it).