Article: United Russia Conquers the Air, THE MOSCOW TIMES

Anna Dolgov
The Moscow Times (Russia)
09-24-2003
The pro-Kremlin United Russia party is getting by far the widest and
most favorable coverage on all the major television channels ahead of parliamentary
elections, monitoring conducted by The Moscow Times over the past week
indicates.
The party's congress on Saturday got top billing on the three main
networks -- Channel One, Rossia and NTV. But even excluding those reports,
United Russia officials were quoted more often than other politicians in
prime-time news during the Sept. 15-22 survey.
Rossia even went so far as to identify Boris Gryzlov as both the
interior minister and a United Russia leader when he was commenting on
a recent explosion in ...

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