Will Stewart - you complain about Russia Today being biased, and then offer up links to two Ukrainian news organizations and the BBC? I for one think the BBC is just as biased as RT.

A couple of years ago I was staying in the hotel overlooking Independence Square in Kiev, and I could turn on my TV to watch RT or CNN and thus compare their news coverage of events in Kiev with what I could see with my own eyes. I was amazed by how similar RT and CNN were. Basically, when the Oranges (the US/UK friendly party) were protesting in the square CNN covered it non-stop and RT had no coverage. When the Blues (the Russian friendly party) were protesting in the square, RT covered it non-stop and there wasn't a whisper of coverage on CNN.

I became convinced that RT is modeled on CNN - they don't lie, they just subtly slant the coverage to be pro-russian. They "lie" by not discussing events or facts that are not in line with what they want their viewers to think. (As do western media outlets - when I asked a US newspaper correspondent I met in Russia why her and her colleagues never mentioned that Edward Liminov is a neo-nazi, she looked at me angrily and responded "He's getting better.")