Chris Miller has written an interesting book on the economic development of Russia under Putin. If one allows to sketch roughly, one can say that ordinary Norwegian media coverage of Russia is characterized by a stereotypical way of thinking.
It is crucial for the Putin regime that more people follow Nistad's call in the recent New Age – that people go to the Promised Land to be blinded and seduced. But behind the scenes, things look different.
Russia has become a prisoner of its own grand narrative of a hostile West that is looking to defeat them, says Julie Wilhelmsen. She is banned from Russia until 2019.
For the first time in several years, Chechens gathered to demonstrate in front of the Storting and outside the Russian embassy: "That the regime is getting worse and that Ny Tid and the Norwegian media are now writing about this means that we are gathering," says one of the protesters.