by Nomad
When you happen to live in a country where the media is under the near-absolute control of the government, how would you know with utter certainty that your motherland is in the middle of a major crisis?
It's all very simple, comrade.
An Inconvenient Moment
An article in Russia Today provides us with the answer to the question above. While the world's news media are using words like "free-fall" and "meltdown" to describe the present state of the Russian economy, some officials inside the country have found a novel way to control the discussion:
Authorities in the Central Russia’s Kaluga Region have banned the use of the word ‘crisis’ in public and the measure is already helping to attract investors, according to the local governor.
The governor of
Kaluga Oblast, Anatoly
Artamonov, told the Russian News Service
“It is possible that the crisis exists, but we forbid the use of this word.”
Artamonov
preferred to use the term "an inconvenient
moment" to describe the historic crash of the Russian currency, which,
despite all efforts by the Central Bank, has plunged more than 20% in just one day.
