Our television showed truckers going on strike, dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. True, the truck drivers turned out to be... Italian! So what? What did you want? Heavy truck driver protests? So here they are! And drivers, and cars, and even protests! As a last resort, you can always say that it’s not easy for drivers here, but in the West things are no better. ...In my opinion, our state journalism is becoming more and more virtuosic. It's a real treat to the eye, by God.

Last Sunday, at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, it was decided to hold on December five together with the truck trade union of the All -Russian protest campaign. The Communists are going to fight for the “suspension of charging fees from heavy vehicles” before developing a new “concept”. There is no doubt that the truckers scared the Kremlin. This fright is fully justified and is explained by a number of reasons.

Several media events last week demonstrated once again that abyss that separates political journalism from propaganda and intrigue, and a policy from clowning. Russian propaganda enthusiastically replicated and pulled out to quotes an interview with Poroshenko, which he gave Tim Sebastian on DW.