Russia: TV Audiences Prefer News Programmes
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Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Moscow, 7 September: The majority of the Russian audiences prefer news programmes to other TV broadcasts. According to the results of a public opinion poll conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Poll Centre.
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The morning after a suicide bomber killed at least nine people outside a busy Moscow subway station, government-controlled television cheerfully led its newscast with coverage of the first day of the new school year.
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For three days last week, the Russian media covered the school hostage drama in Beslan along new Kremlin-approved lines. The highly selective reporting that resulted
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Free and open debate has become a rarity  in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or  business moguls.
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MOSCOW -- There are many ways history may judge last month's presidential elections in Ukraine, but in Russia these days the reverberations are most often described with a single word that sounds the same in Russian as in English: &quot;fiasco.&quot;
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Russia has launched a campaign to  promote the national language after almost two decades of  retreat -- to match the country&#39;s increasing economic and  political confidence.
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MOSCOW -- After ignoring the Internet for years to focus on controlling traditional media such as television and newspapers, the Kremlin and its allies are turning their attention to cyberspace, which remains a haven for critical reporting and vibrant discussion in Russia's dwindling public sphere.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will answer Ukrainians questions live on three Ukrainian TV channels - 1st National and two commercial channels Inter and Studia 1+1, at 8 pm local time (or 9 pm Moscow time) ...
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MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin's annual TV call-in show revealed just how far Russian politics have become a one-man show.
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Russian media commentators criticise Britain's request for the extradition of Alexander Litvinenko's alleged poisoner Andrei Lugovoi.
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Excerpt from report by Belgrade-based B-92 TV on 7 December  [Presenter] And now some statistic data - 26.4 per cent of Serbian citizens watch [Belgrade-based] B92TV, more than they watch other TV stations, a poll conducted by the Novi Sad-based agency SCAN shows.
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A Russian news program aired on channel ORT on Aug. 31 questioned the historical grounds of Lithuaniaa s independence, causing uproar among both politicians and the populace.
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The parliamentary election campaign in the mass media started in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan on 12 February, Dagestan's RGVK TV reported.  TV companies are to provide 30 minutes of free air time and one- hour of paid slots to candidates.
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Moscow News, a Russian publishing house, will start the first business news radio station in the country next month to tap the growing advertising market.
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A number of Turkish mass media have disseminated detailed information on the news conference organized by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for local and foreign journalists.
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Russia's broadcasters emitted a strong wave of Soviet-era nostalgia this week as state-run TV channels lauded the apparent discovery of a sunken ship explorers had failed to locate, despite repeated deep-sea diving expeditions.
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Analysis: He may not really be a global power player, but Russia's president got to play one on TV