Moscow Media Play Up US Leaks While Ignoring Russian Ones

Moscow media have been devoting enormous attention to the nearly 100,000 US documents leaked to the Wikileaks portal, but they have passed over in silence the leak of FSB documents to an Internet site earlier this summer, allowing the Russian powers that be time to plug that leak by shutting down the site.

In an article in today’s “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” Andrey Soldatov, editor of Agentura.ru and a leading independent specialist on Russia’s intelligence agencies, says that is especially unfortunate because as important as the US documents are in providing details, the leaked Russian documents may be far more “significant” (www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=10287).

The US documents leaked to Wikileaks and now widely published or at least commented upon, Soldatov says, “can certainly harm American interests in Afghanistan,” but “at the same time one must not say that the leak essentially changes our understanding” of what is taking place there.

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