Today I answered to the questions of “Russia” TV Channel on the recent youth anti-communist protests. Apparently the interview will be imputed into a bigger special edition on Moldovan anti-communist protests to be aired tomorrow evening. There are few curious things about that particular interview – the Russian journalist was too much insistent to get it, when I was not able to meet them yesterday, his colleague sent a crew to meet me today. As I am not the biggest newsmaker in Moldova, and not even the medium-sized one, that persistence has puzzled me.
That is not everything. The Russian journalist was very much eager to film me next to a computer and I was initially even suggested that we go to an Internet cafe for that purpose. As the Moldovan protests were nicknamed by some Western observers “Twitter revolution”, and as the main topic of the interview was supposed to be “the role of Internet on mobilizing the Moldovan protesters”, one may draw the conclusion that “Russian” TV Channel would like to cook another big Read the rest of this entry »
