Since when is RT talking about disasters with such florid expressions like 'nature strikes back' and 'mother nature', like they give a damned about nature in russia themselves?
Well in Soviet Russia.... anyway,
If you read the article carefully, you can clearly picture that their motive is to dispel all the "western media propaganda" about their excitement on Indonesia. Yes we are growing economy, but hold your horses. We do it by really exploiting rising commodity prices. Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and low calorific value coal exports are our main business. 5 years ago everyone was a sudden business experts and get their own mining permits (or land permits, if you are thuggish enough to fight with local thugs, since they own land by claiming it like thugs) and start doing business irresponsibly. By 2010's projection, Indonesia's coal deposit will run out in 11 years if we didn't dig deeper (which costs outweigh the benefits due to our cheapass low calorific coal). The government just don't care and join the "economic success" bandwagon just because they want to get popularity without having any idea what caused the success.
The thing is, the article has some bits of truths in it. I can safely say, we are more capitalistic than USA. Picture this: you can own a mega corporation, murder competitions, get away with violating law, and well ignore environmental conditions, then proceed with profits. Let's see how those greedy property developer/multi-conglomeration reclaims a lot of land on top of protective mangrove forests? They can pretty much bullshit about "going green" and donate money to Buddhist organization doing recycling and other miniscule environmental skits, but it won't undo the damage they done to Jakarta's coastline. Since 1985, that Mangrove forest area is now mostly gone, so no more breakwater for Jakarta's coastline, no more water absorption. So the RT's article title is pretty much accurate.
http://www.antaranews.com/video/6936/reklamasi-teluk-jakarta-rusak-hutan-mangrove (video in Indonesia, but you just need to see the images)
Indonesia is one of the countries in the world where the people only cares about their personal image, rather than doing something to earn it, and Jakarta is the ultimate poser's city. So you just need to project big poster saying "going green" and liking so many environmentally concerned Facebook pages to strike a good image. It happens with a lot of unused ad spaces that already ruin the city's scenery. Most of which aren't really safe and dominated by cigarette ads.
And then, about the Ukraine: They glorify the restraint of the police, comparing it with the deadly force US officers would use. I mean, why don't they compare the reaction with syrian police officers instead? Bad comparison, ehh?
Well, I know you don't like Russia. But calm down a bit. Let's compare to how Russian police handle protest about the last election eh..? Silence? Restraint? Check!
But behind all that: mysterious kidnapping, random missing person, torture, coercion, etc. You just don't see that. We Indonesians are all well too familiar with regime of terror, unlike most fluent RT readers probably. So, every time I see freedom fighters trying to defend their rights and bla-bla-bla, and the opposition says otherwise and tries to badmouth the demonstrators... well, there is always the back alley where they secretly settle the scores. And this is usually very bad for the innocents.
From what we have seen, is pretty clear: Eastern Europe is not ready for democracy. They need to calm down. And until they can safely chow down more alcohol without resorting to violence, then we can call on democracy.
