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Putin TV

Russia’s last independent network goes under.

By Fred Weir

Moscow—The Kremlin pulled the plug on Russia’s last independent TV network in late January, leaving most of the population with fewer information sources than at any time since the USSR collapsed a decade ago. But the death of TV-6 came not with a Soviet-style jackboot through the door, but after a long series of pseudo-legal maneuvers designed to make state closure… return to article

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