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Russian Minister Says His Deputy’s Media Freedom Remarks Not Official Position

February 19, 2013 JRL Russia List Media, Internet, Social Media, Television

(RIA Novosti – February 15, 2013) Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Communication Nikolay Nikiforov has said that remarks recently voiced by his deputy Aleksey Volin regarding the role of journalism in the Russian society do not constitute the ministry’s official position. Nikiforov said this at the Economic Forum in Krasnoyarsk on 15 February, as reported by Russian news agency […]

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Deputy Minister’s Speech on Journalism Sparks Controversy

February 13, 2013 JRL Russia List Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

JERUSALEM, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russian deputy communications minister Alexei Volin explained on Monday that the controversy stirred by his words that journalists were “not tasked with making the world better,” demonstrates the huge gap between how the experts perceive the media and how it works in practice. Commenting on the speech, the Russian Union of journalists said on […]

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