Let me leave this wonderful story here for the record: It turns out that Yarovaya, the political prostitute, has an undeclared $3 million apartment in central Moscow. Moskovsky Komsomolets publishes an article in which political prostitutes are called "political prostitutes". The owner of a cozy German hotel "for Orthodox pilgrims," where during Great Lent they serve pork knuckle and game, is outraged:
The theme of political prostitution is explored even more fully and vividly. United Russia makes a brilliant asymmetric move: it will not condemn political prostitution. It will condemn the condemnation of political prostitution.
"Freedom of speech, guaranteed to Russian citizens by Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, is one of democracy’s most important achievements. Freedom of the mass media is ensured by constitutional guarantees, and journalists’ work is not restricted by censorship. The role of the mass media in maintaining the link between the state and society cannot be overstated," the document states. All the greater, according to the deputies, is the outrage caused by "cases of abuse of a journalist’s constitutional right to freedom of speech": "The publication in one of the country’s oldest newspapers of an article that has gone beyond every conceivable limit of cynicism, bias, and plain ordinary boorishness has provoked the justified indignation of society. Particularly outrageous were the insults contained in this piece not only against State Duma deputies—which in itself is a challenge to all the citizens who voted for them—but also against women deputies, mothers, and wives." "However, the newspaper’s editorial staff—or rather, its editor-in-chief and founder—appears to have decided to test society’s patience to the very end. Despite universal outrage and numerous demands from public organizations, he refuses to apologize and, judging by his latest statements, does not even realize the full baseness of his act. In view of the above, the State Duma declares such phenomena in the work of the mass media unacceptable," the statement emphasizes. The State Duma deputies believe that "the editor-in-chief and founder of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets must publicly apologize to society and to those whom he insulted." In the deputies’ view, "the editor-in-chief of a publication who has allowed such actions cannot remain a member of professional journalists’ associations or of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (a state-affiliated consultative body)." "Still less can he head the Moscow Union of Journalists and the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation’s commission on communications, information policy, and freedom of speech in the media without discrediting them by his membership." "The State Duma will continue its work to defend civilized norms of public politics in Russian society, norms based on moral values," the statement says. http://er.ru/news/2013/3/19/glavnyj-redaktor-mk-dolzhen-izvinitsya-pered-obshestvom/
What I liked most was this: IT PROVOKED THE JUSTIFIED INDIGNATION OF SOCIETY. Why don’t you, you crooks from United Russia, go on Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel) and tell people about the fiery liberal, Grigory Yavlinsky’s former deputy Irina Yarovaya, who, after moving into the Tverskaya Plaza apartments—on funds from who knows where—revised her views so thoroughly that she now heads the "conservative wing" of your party. Then you’ll see the JUSTIFIED INDIGNATION OF SOCIETY.