Reflections on Putin and the media

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Scott Gehlbach
Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 26(1), 2010, pp. 77-87

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Gehlbach, S. (2010). Reflections on Putin and the media. Post-Soviet Affairs, 26(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.2747/1060-586X.26.1.77

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Gehlbach, Scott. “Reflections on Putin and the Media.” Post-Soviet Affairs 26, no. 1 (2010): 77–87.

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Gehlbach, Scott. “Reflections on Putin and the Media.” Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 26, no. 1, 2010, pp. 77–87, doi:10.2747/1060-586X.26.1.77.

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@article{gehlbach2010a,
  title = {Reflections on Putin and the media},
  year = {2010},
  issue = {1},
  journal = {Post-Soviet Affairs},
  pages = {77-87},
  volume = {26},
  doi = {10.2747/1060-586X.26.1.77},
  author = {Gehlbach, Scott}
}

Abstract

A political scientist investigates the extent to which, under Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin consolidated control over the Russian media. Conceptually, a contrast is drawn between the Soviet and post-Soviet systems of media control. Data-bases are used to illuminate imbalances of television coverage of presidential candidates and public officials as well as the evolution of popular distrust of the media. Comparisons are drawn with President Alberto Fujimori's defunct regime in Peru and speculation is offered as to the fragility of the Kremlin's control over the media.