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Article: RUSSIA: MEDIA-MOST LOSING SUPPORT?(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 19, 2000
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Public support for Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-Most is quickly slipping away, according to Togliatti Mayor Sergei Zhilkin, the organizer of the Soyuz pravykh sil (SPS) in the Volga region. He said that many politicians, cultural figures, and social activists who signed the Union of Journalists' declaration denouncing the raid on Gusinsky's offices on 11 May are now trying to distance themselves from the media holding company. The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Konstantin Vetrov, who strongly supported the statement, has now decided to refrain from engaging in such political activities. Most of the media in the regions were ...