The fact that so many Russians will do almost anything to get to america (or just out of Russia) shows that things are pretty bad there...people dont flee a country where they are happy and satisfied. You dont see americans falling all over themselves to immigrate to Russia...there is a reason this. For all his bluster about the US...he knows this. Me thinks he does protest too much. I have been to Russia...it was...interesting but you simply couldnt pay me enough to live there. Now NORWAY!! I might be persuaded to live in the land of the beautiful even WITH socialism. Oh..and Comrade Kras...just to let you know, because you obviously are lacking any real information about the US...we here in the US have about 20+ channel devoted to 24 hour news From CNN to BBC and everything in between. We receive in depth reports on Iraq (down to who was killed and where), about Darfur all the way down to what spoiled little starlet got arrested today...In fact on C-span you can watch the US congress in session...in 24 hours we can get pretty much every little bit of news there is to report in a day and if that is not enough we have the internet and the daily newspaper...If I didnt know better, I would think you get your vision of America from re-runs of the Simpsons and married with children.