Photography can lie

Try it

http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/index.htm

Plus epochal Soviet photos:

http://www.borodulincollection.com

50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio

Check out this article on the New York Times about how the media is being maneuvered in Russia before the next elections:
50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio