Article: RUSSIA: PUTIN NAMES LEFTIST POLITICIAN TO HEAD STATE BROADCASTING SYSTEM.(President Vladimir Putin appoints Gennadii Sklyar to Russian Television and Radio Network, ORT)(Brief Article)

President Putin on 1 September named Gennadii Sklyar, the current deputy governor of Kaluga Oblast who has longstanding ties to various left-wing groups, to head the Russian Television and Radio Network, ORT television reported. Sklyar began his career during the Soviet era as a Komsomol official in a secret defense telecommunications enterprise. He twice ran unsuccessfully ...

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