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Television for the elite

April 26, 2012 Alexander Vostrov
Is there any hope for Medvedev’s plan to create public television?

Internet gives Russian cinema a bigger audience

April 18, 2012 Daria Gonzales
The Third Double Dv@ Internet Film Festival focusing on fiction film hopes to introduce new Russian cinema to a wider audience.

Russian TV journalists pester McFaul

April 4, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul complains that Russian reporters from the state-sponsored NTV channel pursue him relentlessly

"Western media tend to demonize and magnify Putin”

February 27, 2012 Kommersant FM
Experts argue that the West tends to exaggerate everything connected with Putin.

Online beats print in ad sales

February 23, 2012 Ksenia Boletskaya, Vedomosti.ru
Ad spending in Russia in 2011 exceeded the levels seen before the global financial crisis. More importantly, online ad sales topped those of print ads for the first time.

The world needs an Internet code of conduct, not regulations

January 24, 2012 Igor Shchegolev, Vedomosti.ru
U.S. moves to regulate the Internet go counter to the country’s claims about freedom and democracy

From poster to icon

January 17, 2012 Xenia Grubstein
The Story of the TASS Poster, 1941-1945

Fired for the sake of professionalism?

December 13, 2011 Vsevolod Pulya
The management of a big Russian publishing house is fired for printing a photo containing explicit language

Long Arm of the law: Oligarch TV fistfight case

October 6, 2011 Russia Today TV Channel
Russian law enforcement officers have started a criminal case against billionaire banker Aleksander Lebedev who attacked developer Sergei Polonsky on a television talk show

Passive voice can also be a worldview

September 30, 2011 Svetlana Babaeva
Americans are astonished to find truly professional and critical Russian media coverage

“I write now with more of an edge“

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A rare interview with Oleg Kashin

For Russia’s journalists, often in peril, small ripples of change

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Freedom of the press in Russia: Is the situation improving?

Medvedev's tough sell

January 20, 2011 William Dunkerley, The Moscow Times
Is the Russian government trying to cash in on the sale of worthless media properties?

Good news or bright packaging?

November 16, 2010 Tatiana Shabaeva
Russia won a prize for its pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, but all that glitters may not be gold.

YouTube advertising goes Russian

August 17, 2010 Anastasia Golitsyna, Vedomosti
This month Google launches sales of Russian video advertising on Youtube, as the TV advertising market has been practically sold out.

Former MN editor discusses paper’s perestroika-era fame

July 23, 2010 Ria Novosti
Vitaly Tretyakov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Moskovskiye Novosti weekly, looks back on the paper’s history and the part he played in it.

A predator of the press

May 27, 2010 Alexei Pankin, the Moscow Times

Television worth seeing

March 31, 2010 Mark H Teeter, Moscow News

Why conspiracy theories prevail

March 24, 2010 Kevin Platt, special to Russia Now
Perhaps more so than in any other developed nation I’ve visited, Russians are avid believers in conspiracy theories, from “the U.S.S.R. collapsed because of a sinister plot” to “all of Western history is a hoax and Ancient Rome actually existed at th

Russia Today courts viewers with controversy

March 23, 2010 Nikolaus von Twickel, The Moscow Times
Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad superimposed over each other. "Who poses the greater nuclear threat?" read the billboard, which included the television channel's logo and the slogan, "RT News: Question More."
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