When Russia's gay-bashing propagandist-in-chief Dmitry Kiselyov took over Russian news agency RIA Novosti, some compared the people who left, including myself, to "rats escaping a sinking ship." It was an unfair comparison, especially since RIA was not going anywhere.
The Moscow Times: Kremlin-run media has an image problem
Russia's President Vladimir Putin enters a hall for a meeting with Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on April 18, 2014.
