Yesterday I blogged that neither Vladislav Surkov nor Michael McFaul are reading from the same script as they were a few years ago. Here's a good example how, buried in an FT story on the Iran sanctions doublespeak:Certainly doesn't sound like the same guy who wrote this. I'll see if our translator can dig up the Kommersant piece - let us know in the meantime if this is already available in English somewhere.This fear seemed to be borne out when the Kommersant newspaper yesterday published an interview with Michael McFaul, the senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs at the US National Security Council, quoting him as saying Washington would seek a new approach to human rights. "We have come to the conclusion that in this aspect we need to pursue the reset and reject previous approaches which have complicated the Russian-American partnership," Mr McFaul was quoted as saying.
"Mr McFaul gave an indication that the US no longer intends to teach Russia about democracy, creating tension with Moscow, and intends to concentrate on practical work with non-governmental organisations," the newspaper said.
Looks like he might have been misquoted - http://prima-news.ru/rnews-1839.html
Is this the same Kommersant story you referred to in the other post as well? Or are there two of them? It's kind of infuriating and totally pathetic that we would need to "dig up" either one of them, with nobody quoting a word from either. They claim this is "journalism" better than the blogosphere? As if!
Here is the article.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1255043
Yeah but is that the same article your link refers to here?
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/10/hillarycompeting_headlines.htm
And as Jesse points out with his link, Memorial's Orlov allegedly confronted McFaul and received a denial that Kommersant had been told this.
The reporting from these MSM sources is shockingly lame.