Reuters claims an exclusive on an interesting story about guidance issued by the energy sector in Russia. Letters went to fourty-five of the largest companies, both state-owned and private, to publish stories that show how well the economy is going. This is in the run-up period of the national election in March. If this had happened in the United States, it would have been the Obama Administration telling the major oil and gas companies to publish favorable stories about how well their businesses were going, and how much support they had gotten from his Adminstration. Overall, this is just Russia doing what political parties do in elections - make their side sound great. But that is not all there is to it, I’m sure. They are probably also tamping down stories that do not reflect that good side.
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