Russian media

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am reminded by a recent exchange that the party line
in the West is that the Russian media are uniformly
pro-Putin. This is not true.

The three national TV channels generally follow the
Kremlin line. Some political shows have closed, which
is a shame. However, this is not true of the print
media. The print media are controlled by various
business groups and/or political factions. E.g.
Sovetskaya Rossiya is the newspaper of the Communist
Party. Zavtra is ultra-nationalist. Novaya Gazeta is
anti-Putin to the point of psychosis. Kommersant is
owned by Boris Berezovsky. If you want confirmation of
this, simply go to their respective websites and,
assuming you can't read Russian, Babelfish a couple of
articles. They will read like Dadaist poetry, but you
will get the idea.

The two widest-circulation papers in Russia, Argumenty
i Fakty and Komsomolskaya Pravda, are at www.aif.ru
and www.kp.ru, respectively. Novaya Gazeta's
often-bizarre ramblings are at
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/. Kommersant, which I guess
the Kremlin just forgot to shut down, is at
http://www.kommersant.ru/. Indeed, Kommersant has an
English-labguage website, which may or may not have
different content than the main one. I haven't
checked. http://www.kommersant.com/



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