The Butcher Builders : How Western Journalists Helped Create a Monster in Russia
▻https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/02/the-butcher-builders-how-western-journalists-helpe.html
Nonobstant le terme de « monstre » pour désigner Poutine,
While all of this was going on, western journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, and other publications, were enamoured with the narrative of capitalism overcoming Communism. The economic reformers—Yeltsin and his administration—were “good,” as Financial Times reporter John Lloyd put it in a retrospective blog post, and their efforts generally successful. This lasted right up until Russia’s ‘98 economic collapse, when their reporting would undergo a major shift in tone.
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