• jonne
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    9 months ago

    So a Ukrainian news paper isn’t good enough? I can find other sources for the same story if you like. Or you can search for stories that explore the background of Johnson’s sudden Kyiv trip yourself.

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        9 months ago

        Not to be confused with Prada, Pravda.ru, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ukrainska Pravda, pravda DE, pravda EN, pravda ES, pravda FR, or pravda PL.

        Come on man, at least read the links you post.

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          9 months ago

          Jesus, why did they choose that name? I get that it means truth, but surely it was tainted by the then 88 year old newspaper in the country that colonized yours? Imagine if an Algerian person, fed up with French interference in their media, founded the Algerian newspaper, Le Monde.

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            9 months ago

            Seeing how popular the name is, I suspect it’s just a very generic newspaper name, like how a lot of English-language newspapers have Times in their names. For example, India has The Times of India and The Hindustan Times, despite the name coming from a former colonizer.

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              9 months ago

              I can understand that, but I suspect that neither calls itself The Times. In countries with a large newspaper known as a Times, The Times is called The London Times to differentiate itself