Regular readers of this blog know that once in a while we like to feature translations from the Russian state-run media to provide a glimpse into exactly what kind of extremism and hyperbole is regularly getting pumped into the public sphere. Our favorite is RBK Daily, which in its enthusiasm to please the powers that be, often runs off a little too far into the absurdity of anti-Western vitriol. This one below, for example, reads like a blueprint for how the Soviet Union intends to use ordinary people in the West, disillusioned as they are by the Great Depression and the general warmongering of their governments, as a fifth column to undermine efforts by bourgeois-controlled newspapers to spread paranoid and hateful lies about the Leninist peace-loving nationalities policy and the workers’ state in general. Unfortunately this is an RBK Daily piece about today’s Russia. Russia will take to the streets In order to prove its rightness to ordinary people in the west Yesterday in Brussels there took place a rally in support of the actions of Russia in the Caucasus. More than a hundred residents of Russia, South Ossetia, Belgium, Germany and Serbia, gathered together before the building of the Europarliament, protested against the strengthening of the role of NATO in the foreign policy of the European Union and explained to passers-by just who precisely had unleashed the latest war in the Caucasus, calling upon them not to believe the propagandistic clichés that the western mass information media make active use of in coverage of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. Such a practice must become the norm – specifically direct-action campaigns are the most effective way to bring the position of Moscow on one or another question to ordinary people in the west. The media sector in the EU and the USA has for a long time been under the firm control of the local political elites, conducting a sufficiently harsh censorship policy.