Russia My Dear: My, How You Have Changed!

"The strongarm tactics used by the western stooge, Yushchenko, are typical of the anti-democratic processes set in motion by a rampant and militant Washington, crushed in the grip on a monetarist, neo-conservative crypto-fascist clique of elitists, whose corporate greed speaks louder than the mores of international diplomacy and whose thirst to dominate the world's resources in the lifetimes of Rumsfeld and Cheney throws any moral concept into the trash bin."

This gave me a chance to look at the Pravda website. It is very strange, in fact truly whacky; kind of like the National Enquirer if it were published by Lyndon LaRouche! It is filled with really weird stories, and good old cheesecake.

This is actually more interesting than one would think. This commentary quoted by Sullivan is from Pravda Online, which has nothing to do with the Pravda newspaper, but more than a little to do with the old Pravda arm of the Communist Party. Pravda online was started and staffed by members of the old Pravda staff who resigned en masse in 1991, as detailed in this Wikipedia article: Pravda: The post-Soviet period. So the "western stooge, Yushchenko" rhetoric is an echo of the old order, its bones rattling in the grave.