Greetings, comrades. For those of you unlucky enough to live outside St Petersburg, Russia, you'd have missed today's interview with Stuart Braithwaite in the St Petersburg Times. www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/1049/features/a_15023.htm
The title "Government Commissions" is intended to be an ironic reference to the BBC, according to Braithwaite.
"I suppose it's kind of a joke just because the BBC is owned by the government [sic]. It's kind of like we've been commanded by the government. It's our tribute to communism," he said.