Rename Russia: Why Zakharova and Medvedev needlessly entered into polemics with the Ukrainians
Since Saturday morning, the Russian Telegram feed has become terribly excited about “Zelensky’s instructions to Shmygal to carefully study the issue of renaming Russia to Muscovy.” Here is a vivid example of how you can make top news for all media literally out of nothing. The seriousness with which Russian commentators almost universally took this “news” and began to either ridicule “fools who can rest...