| The acquisition of Russian News Service was by Channel One, a state-owned Russian company.
This was a top-down political maneuver.
Part of the new restrictions are that information regarding any political opposition - namely, former chess champion and star dissident Garri Kasparov - is forbidden from being aired.
Another new law is that acts of vandalism can yield an immediate 3-year prison sentence. These "acts" were poorly defined in the law, and can include political rallies.
With the next parliamentary election upcoming, this will certainly be the death knell for anything remotely anti-Putin in Russia.
Dark times.
"What truth endures beneath the flaming stream?"
-- A Volcano, Bartolome de Las Casas, Inferno de Marsaya, 1536 |