This coverage reminds me Soviet articles from my childhood about hard life of common people in the USA. Funny to see same propaganda being produced for domestic consumption in the USA now.
exactly, it's a journalism as it is: concentrating on the worst distorting the reader's view and the truth.
PS I live here, moreover between Moscow and Spb. In the nice and largest city on this path (Tver'), but they skipped it accidentally. Why you should know something good about Russia? Look, they're savages.