Skids Under Salmond

Hot on the heels of Alex Salmond's bizarre admission that he prefers people of faith, Scotland's former First Minister announces that he is set to appear on Russia Today (RT) to plug his new book on Scotland's independence referendum.

Russia Today is really just a propaganda channel for the Kremlin and anyone who tunes in quickly realises that its main aim is to pour criticism on the western world, sometimes justified but at others not) while saying virtually nothing about day-to-day life in modern Russia.

Probably because the station would be quickly closed down if it strayed from the Russian government's script. 

Which matters, of course.

Because while Russia is a democracy, in name at least, under President Putin's rule Russia is really a one-party state which operates without  a viable opposition in the Russia Duma (Parliament).

Most of the Russian media is now under state control and the country's market economy is dominated by a handful of powerful oligarchs who promote a form of 'gangster capitalism' in which President Putin's enemies often end up dead.

So shame on Alex Salmond for allowing himself to be used by this odious TV channel; surely he can find other ways to promote his new book which would prevent him following  the footsteps of people like George Galloway, for example, who is a regular guest on the RT channel. 

The Scotsman reports on the story in more detail which you can read by following this internet link:  

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/alex-salmond-criticises-uk-media-bias-on-russian-tv-1-3892018