Dollar stops being Russia's basic reserve currency

I agree with you 100% there - utter clap-trap

I've never been more appalled by the utter disregard for journalistic competence that a quick browse through this sites archives shows. Mutant dogs are among the more plausible of the articles, a quick list of the shite I managed to find:

Tunguska meteor was effectively T-boned out of the way of high population densities by Alien do-gooders

Direct and two-way communication with the "netherworld" has been established and preceeded information such as the recent "terrorist bombings" of planes in Russia

A child prodigy began reading/painting/storytelling at the age of two, and enters shamanic dreamtime to preach to crowds about his days as a Martian....

Many more unidentified and bizarre animals

The "untold" history of WW2 including much unpublished data suggesting the persecution of the Russian state and it's citizens at the hands of the Allies, including an alternative theory suggesting Poland instigated concentration camps for German civilians and were a Fascist state that deserved invasion by Hitler's army

A piece titled "Hot Chocolate" which was just a dozen or so pictures of scantily clad black women who are vaguely well known in western culture ("hollywood starlets" or some such)

.... seriously the list goes on! I'm not saying ALL of this is untrue, but I'm willing to say I wouldn't wipe my arse with anything this (obvious) propaganda whore /could/ put in print.

It's not like they dumped their dollars, they supposedly just shifted things around a bit to favor the Euro. Not to mention that it's pretty much completely irrelevant to 'hacker news'. Go to reddit.com if you want the sensationalist junk.

I'm more concerned about their apparent nationalistic streak than about mutant porn stars. It's interesting how former communists, i.e internationalists, found it so easy to become rabid nationalists. At least that's how I interpret the phrase "pro Russian".

http://english.pravda.ru/about/