Tycoon sues Ukrainian reporters in UK
The Kiev Post has an interesting article on Rinat Akhmetov, who is increasingly concerned about his reputation. Ukraine’s richest tycoon has decided to take Ukrainian journalists and publications disseminating allegedly defamatory material against him to court in the UK.
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky sued the business magazine Forbes in the mid 1990s, which ended with the US-based publication publicly acknowledging that it was wrong to characterize Berezovsky as a mafia boss. Hungarian-based gas trader Eural Trans Gas, which controlled the lucrative business of supplying Turkmen gas to Ukraine, has in recent years sued journalists in Ukraine and Russia alleging that their reporting had damaged the company’s reputation.
The original article at the Kiev Post is well worth reading it. (Follow the link)
Mirror mirror on the wall ….
… who has the best Russiablog of all ? This seems to be the most important question on blogosphere again these days. Andy Young’s ‘Siberian Light’ discusses the state of the Russia blogosphere , inspired by the infamous “La Russophobe Boys” who once again look in their magic mirror, posting their “LR Index”.
But also the German language “Russo Blogosphere” is infected by this virus. The Swiss based Russiablog ‘Krusenstern - Крузенштерн’ picks up this topic as well. In his entry “Die 16 größten Russland-Blogs der Welt (in Englisch)” Jürg Vollmer analyses this phenomenom, with the precision of a Swiss watch and a good sense of humour. (He is Swiss, and only the Germans are not supposed to be funny.)
Amending the “statistic” by adding the factor “Unique Visitors per Day” Jürg reaches the conclusion that his own blog ‘Krusenstern - Крузенштерн’ beats the ‘Fabulous La Russophobe Boys’ by 15,38 % (234 vs 19 
and ‘Siberian Light’ by 6,84 % (234 vs 21 day per day and actually is the most successful “Russiablog of All” (based on the daily readership).
All around the globe people seem to look into their magic mirror today, asking the very same question …
Mirror mirror on the wall … who has / is the best of all ?
In Moscow, an ex-pat blogger will be asked by his mirror “With or without tits ?”
In Malverne NY, USA a tiny bald man looks into the mirror on the wall of the employees’ changing room at Wendy’s, asking the question “Who is the most successful Independent Foreign Policy Analyst Extraordinaire (IFPAE), Media Critic (MC) and Political Dissident (PD) of all”.
And the mirror replies ….
“Why do you look, at all, in me,
For all you see is the same old ‘me’,
And not what you so desperately wanna be.”
And the tiny bald man wipes a tear off his cheek with his apron, heads towards the grill and puts on his most professional smile. He will desperately need it when saying, over and over again …..
“Thank you for eating at Wendy’s !”
