{"id":171,"date":"2007-07-05T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-05-01T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:01:05","slug":"monpoly-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly on Truth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image170\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/censorship.jpg\" alt=\"censorship.jpg\" width=\"71\" height=\"96\" \/><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Let me use this blog to complain about the increasingly hostile attitude of the European and US media (and publics) to impartial research on Russia. Current russophobia andRussiabashing in western media makes it increasingly difficult to get the results of serious research onRussiaheard. This is not to complain about lacking access to the media and public visibility; actually it is not a real problem to get your views noticed, but they are immediately denounced as pro-Kremlin and pushed aside; furthermore a lack of visibility would not suffice to write this short blog entry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is indeed worrying though is the fact, that meticulous research which aims to provide a balanced, sober and knowledgeable view of both Russian domestic and foreign politcs, which runs counter to the currently accepted views, is increasingly attacked as utterly russophile. This connotation seeks to suggest that our research is not to be sonsidered serious and impartial. Incidents are increasing where critical but balanced research is attributed as Kremlin propaganda. On more than one accession funding for research projects was denied not based on criticsm on the scientific merits of the research proposal but due to an allegedly russophile bias of my work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is reminiscent of Cold War days and amounts to a kind of censorship and political denunciation. The Russian research community needs to get increasingly aware of this. There is no more interest in debate and critical thought; assessments seem to be fixed and made usable in political campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me use this blog to complain about the increasingly hostile attitude of the European and US media (and publics) to impartial research on Russia. Current russophobia andRussiabashing in western media makes it increasingly difficult to get the results of serious research onRussiaheard. This is not to complain about lacking access to the media and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/?p=171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monopoly on Truth&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}