Was the moon landing anniversary acknowledged in Russia? Short of celebrating it, was it even mentioned in Russian media?
Here’s a pretty good link about it:
Not much, it looks like. I just had a little search for Аполлон 11 and the top result is the Russian version of the BBC! Plus a number of minor news sites I haven’t really heard of.
RT managed to write their article on he subject without ever having to explicitly say “America got there first”
To be fair though, it doesn’t look like the US media was writing many articles about Yuri Gagarin eight years ago. Google search pulls up an Atlantic piece, and then it’s mostly the BBC again and “space.com”
Although lots of American cities have a Yuri’s Night party on April 12 every year, an I understand it was especially well attended 8 years ago.