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Russia

• September 8 -- Removing "Allah" from the NYT?
The Times carries political correctness to an extreme in its coverage of the terrorists in Chechnya. Also: Did the NYT substitute "God" for "Allah" in a quote from a terrorist to lessen the Muslim aspect of the attacks?

• February 16 -- "Stalinist Ideals of…Social Equality"
Seth Mydans has another odd take on Russian history.

• February 5 -- Seth Mydans in Stalinland
The last surviving resident of a central Russian village longs for the good old days of the Soviet Union, writes Seth Mydans: "In his younger years, Mr. Bykov was a soldier, a janitor and a plumber, and the world wasn't such a bad place." Bykov grew up under Stalin.

• January 13 -- Hot For Communism in the Arctic
Nostalgia for Communism in Arctic Russia: "Victor…said the main problem was the long-gone stability of an earlier era of affordable health care, free higher education and housing, and the promise of a comfortable retirement--things now beyond his reach."

• December 4 -- Kyoto: Russia Balks, But Bush Blamed
Russia is having second thoughts about ratifying the environmental decree known as the Kyoto Protocol, but instead of pinning the "blame" on Russia, a Times editorial finds a more appealing bogeyman: "Indeed, it can be argued that Russia would not be having second thoughts about the Kyoto accord had Mr. Bush himself decided not to bail out."

• December 3 -- Bush Killed Kyoto?
A lead story laments the apparent killing of the Kyoto Protocol, which would have required draconian cuts in the output of greenhouse gases on the part of industrial nations: "The Bush administration rejected the pact, essentially giving Russia veto power over its enactment." But it wasn't just Bush: The U.S. Senate rejected Kyoto by 95-0 in 1997.

• November 3 -- We Miss Communism
"For the vast majority of Russians, life is worse than it was in Soviet times."

• April 21 -- Just What Russia Needs: More Planning
Sabrina Tavernise misses the Iron Curtain: “In the chaotic changes after the Soviet Union's collapse that widened the gap between rich and poor, early 1990's idealism hardened into sour hopelessness and a sense of futility.”

• March 10 -- Walter Duranty, the Times' Useful Idiot
Russian dictator Josef Stalin may have been poisoned, the Times' Serge Schmemann noted with satisfaction in the "Editorial Observer" section of Monday's edition. But he went on to admonish that Stalin "was not always the same demon in our eyes that he is today," pointing out the Times itself ran a report on Stalin's death that made no mention of the purges or the gulag. But the career of Walter Duranty, Times' man in Moscow during the 1930s, proves the paper's ignorance of Stalinist reality wasn't limited to one obituary.