Western media is a funny beast. While demanding balanced and sensible coverage of their own state’s internal affairs, stories about Russia seem to be treated as the follies of bonkers, backward people in a far-flung freakshow.
If all you knew about this country came from the likes of the Washington Post and the Guardian, you’d be forgiven for thinking Russian streets were teeming with balalaika-playing bears, AK-47-wielding communists, and KGB officers Cossack-dancing in the snow. By now, you’d have thought such caricatures would have gotten old, yet despite the current trend towards wokeness, lazy and hackneyed stereotypes are back in fashion.
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