“Newspeak” in Russian is “novoyaz.”

This handy glossary of politically correct journalistic vocabulary in times of crisis comes to us courtesy of the “Open Electronic Newspaper” Forum.msk.ru, whose slogan is “Who owns information, owns the world”. The article remains tantalizingly silent about whether or not this is an actual list handed down from above or merely the work of a humorist.

…real assessments of the situation somehow pass by the domestic media. On the blogs there has even appeared a “Handbook for Socially Responsible Journalists, Bloggers and PRasts” [sic], how to correctly describe what is going on in officialise: