Community nytimesinmoscow, created by the Moscow bureau of the newspaper reporters The New York Times, in a few days took on a truly global popularity. Its creators were going to just publish translations of articles by New York Times o gather the views of Russia and Russian bloggers, but the launch of the community has become a real ' breakthrough ', as one of the key editor of the newspaper, Bill Keller.
' This is a breakthrough... Opinions Russian about us and about themselves - a real insider. I've been working on my Russian at the weekend ' - said Bill. During the first 4 days of the existence of the readers of the community were 1328 people, and participants - 730 users. The first article of the new cycle of Russia, published on February 22, which tells about the suppression of democracy in Russia under President Vladimir Putin, has collected 2512 comments.
Many of the comments, both positive and negative, have been translated into English. They added a page that has been available to readers online version of The New York Times February 24. The results of the project aroused wide public interest and in the print edition of the newspaper on February 25 the material appeared under the title ' The article caused a sharp comments Russian ' ('An Article Brings Sharp Responses From Russians').
Greater than the The New York Times, the experiment satisfied the company SUP, the owner of the ' LiveJournal '. In its press release it says: ' This weekend users of the service showed that the site is an effective platform ' traditional journalism '. Thanks to translations of comments made by Russian users, and their publication on the site nytimes. com, readers of the newspaper The New York Times were able to find out what Russians really think about the criticism of his country. The newspaper The New York Times plans to publish further articles, and it is clear that users ' LiveJournal ' will still say '.
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