🗞🌾 The World Bank's oracle despairs. 🇷🇺 Russian mines will take months to clear. 🇨🇳 China moves into Cambodia. 🇮🇷Iran threatens to leave the NPT. 🦷Patrice Lumumba's tooth ... and more.
Is it just me, or is modern media Russian overly verbose, stylistically vacuous, and pompous? Every translation I see of official or media sources doesn’t even have the sound and the fury; it just means nothing. They make US State Department releases sound profound and almost terse. It’s almost as if Russian outlets have to satisfy an Eastern potentate with empty encomia and formulaic glorifications.
For the Iranian news section:
The Ayatollah's Animadverts?
Aren’t those Ukrainian mines in the Black Sea? Put down to stop Russia taking Odessa using their amphibious what nots?
Is it just me, or is modern media Russian overly verbose, stylistically vacuous, and pompous? Every translation I see of official or media sources doesn’t even have the sound and the fury; it just means nothing. They make US State Department releases sound profound and almost terse. It’s almost as if Russian outlets have to satisfy an Eastern potentate with empty encomia and formulaic glorifications.
Nice parrot
I like Toby Young's description of Boris Johnson as not "unduly constrained by principle."