Kara-Murza Vladimir. The Kremlin’s Voice: 10 Years Without Independent TV in Russia

Электронный ресурс (сайт Института Современной России). Дата публикации: 20 июня 2013. Название оригинала: Владимир Кара-Мурза "Говорит и показывает Кремль. 10 лет без независимого телевидения". Выполненный Институтом Современной России перевод статьи на англ. яз. The presence of an alteative source of information—indeed, a source of information rather than propaganda—with access to tens of millions of people was a barrier both to consolidating unlimited political power and to satisfying the corrupt appetites of the Kremlin leadership. This barrier had to be removed. The work on its removal began on the fifth day after Putin’s inauguration in May 2000. According to IMR Senior Policy Advisor Vladimir Kara-Murza, the purging of independent TV has allowed Vladimir Putin to significantly delay the development of Russian society.