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Russia's "McCain-Feingold" act at work.
When "ex"-KGB officer Vladimir Putin came to power in 1999, "Russia had what approximated to an independent media," notes media critic Stephen Glover in the September 11 issue of The Spectator of London. "Now all television channels and nearly all newspapers are controlled directly or indirectly by the Kremlin.... The country's last independent television channel was shut down last year on the pretext of financial insolvency."
As necessary, Putin's regime reverts to Brezhnev-era censorship measures. When Izvestia asked pointed questions about the government's actions in the recent terrorist horror at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Putin reacted "by securing the dismissal of the editor of Izvestia, Raf Shakirov." Additionally, "two Russian journalists with independent views on Chechnya were not even allowed to get to Beslan." One was arrested and jailed for five days; the other mysteriously took ill during a flight to the region after being served tea.
Another important weapon wielded by Putin against the media is the Russian version of the McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" law. Signed in 2002 by President Bush (who had ...
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- RUSSIA - Putin's Background.
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...was Alexander III, Putin's hero and the...the authority of Russia and boost the internal...ridiculously low prices. Putin's "dictatorship...had developed in Russia and the oligarchs...oligarch labelled Russia's "evil genius...being in exile. Putin god rid of Rem Vyakhirev...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Russia's "McCain-Feingold" act at work.