Regnum advices to boycott Estonia
Somehow we should have expected it since quite few months but, still, discovering such news is always quite shocking.
Regnum, a news portal quite-too-close to the Kremlin, clearly adviced its readers not to travel to Estonia and not to consume Estonian products.
And someone said the cold war was over.
Do you like Fazer sweets and you enjoy them drinking a full glass of Coca Cola? You'd better be Estonian then.
Regnum, a news portal which is known for being sometimes not that objective, today adviced people not to consume any Estonian good - chocolate, beer..anything - and not to come to this country for holidays..and not just theoretically speaking.
Regnum lists hotels in which Russians should not stay (Athena, Dzingel, Hermes, Salzburg, Stroomi, Trapp, Kalev SPA, Oru, Pirita Top SPA, Reval Hotel Olümpia, Susi, Tallinn City Hotel and Ülemiste Hotel), the chocolate Russians should not eat (produced by Fazer Eesti AS), beverages Russians should not drink (produced by A Le Coq AS, Coca-Cola Eesti AS and the Saku Brewery) as if they were pointing their finger against an irresistible enemy.
Rise the hand who feels surprised.
Regnum, a news portal which is known for being sometimes not that objective, today adviced people not to consume any Estonian good - chocolate, beer..anything - and not to come to this country for holidays..and not just theoretically speaking.
Regnum lists hotels in which Russians should not stay (Athena, Dzingel, Hermes, Salzburg, Stroomi, Trapp, Kalev SPA, Oru, Pirita Top SPA, Reval Hotel Olümpia, Susi, Tallinn City Hotel and Ülemiste Hotel), the chocolate Russians should not eat (produced by Fazer Eesti AS), beverages Russians should not drink (produced by A Le Coq AS, Coca-Cola Eesti AS and the Saku Brewery) as if they were pointing their finger against an irresistible enemy.
Rise the hand who feels surprised.
on 31-07-2008 By Giovanni Angioni - Hot issues
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This sounds somewhat out of line for Regnum, so I did a few Google searchs, for example with the words "Saku" and "Stroomi" in the regnum.ru domain. I couldn't find anything even vaguely similar to a boycott recommendation, not in Russian and not in English.
However, above several articles on Estonia I discovered an advertising banner for Komsomolskaya Pravdas coverage of the Estonian statue crisis that happened for more than a year ago. Following the link to Komsomolskaya Pravda you can actually find a list with the abovementioned Estonian companies:
http://www.kp.ru/daily/23996.5/7873...
The article is from November last year. It is somewhat surprising that Regnum is still using this banner, but the boycott list is not a part of Regnum content.
I wrote about Komsomolka's role in the Russian information war against Estonia in May last year:
http://www.kniivila.net/2007/ryssla...
I have to say that I posted these lines after a presser I got to my personal mail from a colleague of mine I consider seriously reliable and, even though I cannot read Russian for checking it - my fault, I know - While I have been double checking, I have found the following articles referring to that:
Baltic Course: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/to...
Baltic Business News:
http://www.balticbusinessnews.com/D...
Anyway, I have to sincerely thank you for starting this discussion as it shows that we have critical readers who really cares about what we write: something incredibly important for motivating us on keeping an eye on the quality of the material we publish.