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Article: Soviets Shut Down News Agency;Move Against Interfax Follows Censoring of TV News Program
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- The Washington Post
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- January 12, 1991
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The Soviet government shut down the fledgling independent news
agency Interfax today, a move that Soviet journalists said is part
of the Kremlin's general shift toward more hard-line policies.
The closing of Interfax, a Soviet-French-Italian joint venture,
came just two weeks after the state broadcasting authority
Gostelradio barred from the air the country's most popular and
irreverent television news program, "Vzglyad" ("View.") The program
was initially barred after it tried to broadcast a live interview on
the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Although both the print press and television remain far less
restricted than under previous Soviet leaders, journalists here ...