This statement by Shlapentokh is completely correct:
"To convey the highly charged differences between these major viewpoints, let us resort to an impressionistic comparison: take as a point of reference the ideological distance between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In the Russian context, the ideological distance that separates Novaia Gazeta and Trud, or Channel One and Ekho Moskvy is probably 10 to 30 times greater than between these two publications. The closest American analogue is probably the chasm between a Trotskyist pamphlet circulated in Detroit and the Detroit News."
FWIW the websites of the newspapers refered to in the article are (Russian-language):
Komsomolskaya Pravda (tabloid focusing on celebs, highest circulation of any paper in the FSU I believe): www.kp.ru
Argumenty i Fakty (weekly, mixed serious stuff and tabloid matter): www.aif.ru
Novaya Gazeta (insane journal of the "liberal intelligentsia," home of the demented Pavel Felgenhauer, nobody seems to know who owns it): http://www.novayagazeta.ru/
Izvestia (excellent, excellent newspaper): http://www.izvestia.ru/
Moskovskie Novosti (which I don't read): www.mn.ru (and the related English-language Moscow News: www.mosnews.com). Propaganda outlet for Menatep.
Moskovski Komsomolets (tabloid): http://www.mk.ru/
Zavtra (described alternately as leftist and rightest, I have never read it so I don't know): http://zavtra.ru/cgi//veil//zavtra/index.html
Trud (pretty serious paper -- I read it): http://www.trud.ru/
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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