You have to get used to the fact that people are entitled to say things, to recount experiences, dealings… that is free speech. The media is not a court of law, nor should it ever become one, credible hearsay is well admissible in a free media. There are ample opportunities for redress in terms of legislation for any person who feels wanton lies are being generated and circulated about them. I fully reject out of hand that the media needs to be driven to generate a beyond reasonable doubt approach to publishing. That is the avenue many censors in the west want to take. No, let it flow, a wife is pretty well placed to know a partners sexual habits and history, and yes ex-wives can be vindictive, ordinary people have the right to have both these points of views represented in a veracious manner, but an outlet has no duty to represent both positions continually ad nausea. Similarly when someone leaves a grouping, it should be open for anyone to postulate and represent the reasons for the departure, including those involved. This is the standard articles should simply meet handsomely. The courts and subsequent reputation (with its business effects) of the media outlet will regulate the rest. Yes I do want more articles like this recounting peoples dealings with officials, detailing peoples past lives, their nationalities, education, previous convictions, dealings with friends, previous conflicts…. We seek to elect people here to represent us, to do that we need know everything about them as people, not what some nice party or council want to paint a pretty picture of them for us! For instance I will never vote for a dual national holding a western countries passport, or follow them politically, simply never!

@Count Cash said " This is part of a full on democratic approach. This article met the standard handsomely, "
How so? It is a "he said she said" case but only the accusations keep appearing. Where is the investigation of the accuser regarding possible motive for the accusation. Have you seen that?  In the meantime, this persons reputation is being destroyed. Is that what you want to see "going on here"? He must be anti-Putin.

Only foreign paid can professional blogger in Russia (unregistered) wrote in #3
“the professional blogger” is a complete nonsense! We blog here at RT everyday. We express our views through this medium ( so we are nameless professional bloggers). Some people come here to spread lies, others blog to share variable knowledge and facts. So a professional blogger as separate category outside of massive online communication is similar to calling Russian oligarchs ( thieves and looters) “businessmen”. However, both figures are new cynical tropes in the reactionary English speaking new Russian media and popular cultural. These two figures: the oligarch blogger are key tropes in the new urban Russia. This in turn makes the new urban spaces in Russia places dominated by reactionaries and thieves. Now we know also members of these reactionary elite want to export Russia’s orphans to the U.S. This is because these reactionary groups see the orphans as surplus commodity which can be exported to other countries. These two figures: foreign assisted blogger and the oligarch co-emerged in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. The figure of the oligarch and the reactionary blogger must be replaced systematically and thoroughly or Russia will never move forward completely. Professional blogger is not a professional in the sense of having a professional trade nor does he expresses verified facts. This is figure whose entire prestige depends on others reading what he writes! ============== ==================== ===========Prime example of Russian xenophobia.