Putin's Media War - Russia

March 2005

Putin's censorship of the media has led to the re-emergence of Soviet style propaganda in Russia. Journalists telling the truth are literally risking their lives.

"I've written my will. I'm getting my children used to the idea that at any moment they might be left without me," states journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Her reports from Chechnya have constantly contradicted the official line, making her deeply unpopular with the Kremlin. "Since Vladimir Putin became President, propaganda and censorship have re-emerged," complains editor Oleg Panfilov. During the Beslan siege, Russian networks were banned from mentioning the hostage takers demands and ordered to claim they were international terrorists not Chechen rebels. In the wake of Beslan, even tighter controls are planned. The FSB are lobbying for a complete ban on reporting terrorist acts. "Then, if people are killed, there'd be no impact, no stress, no outcome favourable to the terrorists," explains Pavel Pozhigaylo, Deputy Head of the Information Policy Committee.

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[pasholnaxui10]

@4CaHeK While I agree that Putin's tax reforms did a lot to reign in lost tax revenues into Russia's coffers, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that this upswing in economic growth is mostly a result of higher petroleum prices in the 2000s as opposed to the 1990s. The same type of trend can be seen in the relation between the USSR's weak lagging economy during cheap oil prices of the late 1960s/ early 70s and the more robust growth during the high oil prices of the mid to late 1970s.

[harrikelm]

@tomreves28

"you wil die in misery of putins economy thinking like north korean that people outside your country live worse than u do, pathetic"

haha your hatred grows really faster than russias economy.

i will not die in misery, i will die in my homeland.

im not like you. i have my future.

you are just disrespectful.

but maybe, someday you will learn to respect your homeland.

this is my last answer to you.

good evening and a lucky future.

[tomreves28]

@harrikelm you wil die in misery of putins economy thinking like north korean that people outside your country live worse than u do, pathetic

[harrikelm]

@tomreves28

dont worry, i will live and die there.

you can stay in lithuania.

[tomreves28]

if you like russian economy so much, why dont you go to russia and live there but in such a capitalistic country as germany; but I think you realize that all intelligent people flee russia cause they have no future there

[harrikelm]

@tomreves28 USSR ascended fast after the WWII.

[harrikelm]

@tomreves28

go home.

[tomreves28]

@harrikelm it cant grow in the same speed cause you always choose dictatorship over democracy

[tomreves28]

@harrikelm I identify myself with the place where I was born, not the nationality of my parents

[harrikelm]

@tomreves28

"I am Lithuanian and I am proud of that"

yeah, i see...