Vox cani

I find Itar-Tass a very good source for Russian news, but they are by no means neutral in a Western sense. Their story on the Duma's opinion of Belarussian elections reports just that: the opinion of the Duma. Incidentally, its website looks like a school one, with bugger all dynamic content, so I dunno where one would read the statement in full. They give, erm, hope for the Russian media's independence, noting that "certain Russian television journalists who were covering [it,] playing into the hand of a certain part of the Belarussian opposition, did not "strengthen the prospects for expediting the establishment of a stable and effective Union of Russia and Belarus,"". Certainly, if one covers elections in a manner sympathetic to an opposition, then one needs censure from the Russian Duma. Of course they may just have a delicious sense of irony: thus to warn that if anyone attempts to encourage Belarussian pluralism, then they'll create a political culture divide with Putin's Russia.