http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/ The Moscow Times is a daily English-language newspaper featuring objective, reliable news on business, politics and culture in Russia and the former Soviet Union (CIS). en Fri, 25 May 2012 01:57:42 +0400 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/upload/iblock/0bd/Opinion.jpg 330 236 Viktor Bogorad || Russia's New Propaganda Minister http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/459200.html http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/459200.html By Michael Bohm <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/themoscowtimes/opinion/~3/i-ZB-_-idIc/459200.html After Monday's announcement that historian Vladimir Medinsky was appointed the culture minister, critics quickly labeled him the new propaganda minister. Medinsky's academic ethics and historical distortions may raise serious questions, but for the Kremlin, he has three important attributes that are much more important: He is a model United Russia leader, a firm Putin loyalist and a skilled sophist. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/py7YAkX4WXM3bzh4_ZiEGdnZGuw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/py7YAkX4WXM3bzh4_ZiEGdnZGuw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/py7YAkX4WXM3bzh4_ZiEGdnZGuw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/py7YAkX4WXM3bzh4_ZiEGdnZGuw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/459200.html http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/459199.html By Michele A. Berdy <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/themoscowtimes/opinion/~3/7GHkQ3T4MJ8/459199.html One of my favorite new language toys is Google's Ngram Viewer, which lets you - in highly technical Googlese - "search lots of books" to find the frequency of a word or phrase. This is a helpful tool for translators who are trying to choose a word in English that matches, more or less, its Russian equivalent in frequency of usage. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tXV85bqxZlICzYNOQAFx2aob2lo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tXV85bqxZlICzYNOQAFx2aob2lo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tXV85bqxZlICzYNOQAFx2aob2lo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tXV85bqxZlICzYNOQAFx2aob2lo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 +0400 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/459199.html