I can answer your question about the eXile's advertisers. They are mail order bride companies, seeking to auction off Russian women to the highest bidder. That is the way the eXile supports its endeavors.
I can also tell you that I might have more sympathy for the eXile if I had not been victimized by behavior of theirs which is identical to what they complain about in this article. I publish the Russia blog La Russophobe (I also blog at Pajamas Media, Instablogs and Publius Pundit), and the publishers of the eXile put a bounty on my head, seeking to disclose my physical address so that I could be harassed or brutalized by those who support the Kremlin and whom I routinely criticize. They published a cartoon supposedly of me, accusing me of being fat and ugly, and they lied about statements I made about my blog's traffic, asserting I claimed 100,000 visits when in fact I claimed 100,000 page views. When I noted the error, they failed (refused) to correct it.
The eXile spends much more time attacking America and its values than it does chiding the Kremlin and standing up for democracy in Russia, and often scatalogically ridicules brave Russians, like Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov, who stand up to the Kremlin (an absurdly inaccurate and unfair attack on Nemtsov is running the the eXile's current issue). As in the time of Stalin, they are finding out now that the "friends" of the Kremlin are often the ones in the greatest danger.
I can answer your question about the eXile's advertisers. They are mail order bride companies, seeking to auction off Russian women to the highest bidder. That is the way the eXile supports its endeavors.
I can also tell you that I might have more sympathy for the eXile if I had not been victimized by behavior of theirs which is identical to what they complain about in this article. I publish the Russia blog La Russophobe (I also blog at Pajamas Media, Instablogs and Publius Pundit), and the publishers of the eXile put a bounty on my head, seeking to disclose my physical address so that I could be harassed or brutalized by those who support the Kremlin and whom I routinely criticize. They published a cartoon supposedly of me, accusing me of being fat and ugly, and they lied about statements I made about my blog's traffic, asserting I claimed 100,000 visits when in fact I claimed 100,000 page views. When I noted the error, they failed (refused) to correct it.
The eXile spends much more time attacking America and its values than it does chiding the Kremlin and standing up for democracy in Russia, and often scatalogically ridicules brave Russians, like Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov, who stand up to the Kremlin (an absurdly inaccurate and unfair attack on Nemtsov is running the the eXile's current issue). As in the time of Stalin, they are finding out now that the "friends" of the Kremlin are often the ones in the greatest danger.