The Exile in trouble

[groovlstk]

Just this week I saw that The Exile, an extremely irreverent print and web newspaper published in Moscow, may be closed by the Russian authorities.

I've long been a fan of The Exile, they are sometimes way too profane and over the top, but they also publish some excellent serious items about life in Russia.

What I found very interesting was a comment from the founder and ed.-in-chief, which goes a long way towards explaining the behavior of two female posters a few months back:

These days, Russia is all about getting serious and respectable. And it's also in the grips of a national persecution mania, in which grievances and complexes about the West have exploded into a kind of mass grievance obsession, a frenzied Easter egg hunt for evidence of Western disrespect or unfairness in order to feed this grievance jones. The fact that our paper has also exerted a lot of bile in savaging the West's Russophobe industry is irrelevant to them, even annoying; all they care about is sifting for evidence of humiliating Russia.

[Gator]

Groov,

It does remind me so much of JC and S.

[Misha]

The Moscow Times has a piece on the eXile and what it is facing: http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/600/42/368248.htm.

It seems that Russian officials are doing what they typically do: they do not close the paper directly, but rather intimidate the sponsor and advertisers to force the paper to shut down due to lack of funding.

[55North]

Irreverent, possibly irrelevant, but a damn fine way to pass a Sunday afternoon.
 
The big question is.... where will War Nerd be published?  As a life-long pacifist, I'm wedded to his take on things.

[KenC]

Groov,

It does remind me so much of JC and S.

Gator,
That came to my mind too. :brightidea:
KenC