Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Peter Pomerantsev: We’re all Putin’s ‘useful idiots’
A Russian football supporter wearing a t-shirt depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin poses for photographers in front of the FIFA World Cup trophy in Saint Petersburg on July 18.
LONDON - Watching Russian TV recently is a disturbing business. As Stephen Ennis at BBC Monitoring has painstakingly recorded, Russian media has developed a habit of delivering death threats to opposition members, using anti-Semitic insinuations against its opponents, screaming about the threat of the "homosexual sodomite tsunami," and recommending burning the hearts of homosexuals while indulging in "techniques of psychological conditioning designed to excite extreme emotions of aggression and hatred in the viewer."
