Comments on: Censorship of English language Russian media? http://siberianlight.net/censorship-of-english-language-russian-media/ The Russia Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David McDuff http://siberianlight.net/censorship-of-english-language-russian-media/comment-page-1/#comment-5717 David McDuff Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://65.124.18.226/~siberian/?p=531#comment-5717 It's doubtful whether Western companies investing in Russia pay much attention to independent Russian journalism of the kind that is practiced by Latynina, Radzikhovsky, Politkovskaya, Albats, Babitsky and others. They and their advisers are much more likely to swallow the picture presented by Russia's increasingly state-controlled MSM. On the other hand, even though a publication like EJ may only be read by a few, the content of the articles it publishes - only in Russian - is of great significance to human rights NGOs, both in Russia and abroad. I'd suggest that it's the dissemination of this kind of information that the Kremlin fears and tries to counter, mostly without much success. It’s doubtful whether Western companies investing in Russia pay much attention to independent Russian journalism of the kind that is practiced by Latynina, Radzikhovsky, Politkovskaya, Albats, Babitsky and others. They and their advisers are much more likely to swallow the picture presented by Russia’s increasingly state-controlled MSM.

On the other hand, even though a publication like EJ may only be read by a few, the content of the articles it publishes – only in Russian – is of great significance to human rights NGOs, both in Russia and abroad. I’d suggest that it’s the dissemination of this kind of information that the Kremlin fears and tries to counter, mostly without much success.

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