flowers, candles, wine, a Russian teenager, Michael-Jackson-photos in addition to Russian icons - a unique image at the entrance to the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Not even after the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001, when several thousand Americans lost their lives, there has been such a thing. But
have seen the walls of the embassy building now abundant expressions of antipathy. Periodically they were pelted with tomatoes and eggs, once even fired from a bazooka - in recent years, the U.S. government has probably in Indeed, enough obscenities committed.
course is also the current wave of sympathy and compassion, not the United States, but a single U.S. citizen who has long since become a citizen of the world. Millions of Russians and Russians consider this droll Americans to their hearts - of course not, because he was a U.S. citizen, rather DESPITE this fact. Despite the sometimes unreflective anti-Americanism in the post-Soviet ideology - is dominating and in the Bush era has grown clear - except for brief episodes. About
like the Russian-specificity anti-Americanism I write in more detail in the next few days - especially in connection with the forthcoming visit to Russia Barack Obama.
today would certainly draw a parallel between Michael Jackson and Barack Obama too speculative and too risky. What is the current U.S. president, however, can write well: So far he has done little, which would have supplied the global anti-Americanism new nutrient. The diehard anti-Americanists have a hard time with him - just as it did with the American megastar Michael Jackson.
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