FREEDOM HOUSE-FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Russia
Press Status-Not Free
Press Freedom Score 81
0=Best, 100=Worst
The already repressive press freedom environment in Russia declined even further with Vladimir Putins return to the presidency in 2012, as authorities relied on both crude and sophisticated forms of media management to distract the public from terrorist attacks, economic troubles, and antigovernment protests. The government maintained its grip on key television outlets and tightened controls over the internet during the year, and most state and privately owned mass media engaged in blatant propaganda that glorified the countrys national leaders and fostered an image of political pluralismespecially in the months ahead of Putins victory in the March presidential election.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/russia
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JORNALISTS
The beginning of Vladimir Putins third term as president was marked by a crackdown on civil society and critical opinion. Putin signed laws that suppress dissent by limiting public assembly, criminalizing defamation, and authorizing state censorship of critical websites. A Cold War-era chill settled in as lawmakers passed a measure requiring nongovernmental groups receiving international grants to register as foreign agents, and the administration expelled the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations childrens agency.
https://cpj.org/2013/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2012-russia.php
BBC-Russia profile Media
Russian TV is dominated by channels that are either run directly by the state or owned by companies with close links to the Kremlin.
The government controls Channel One and Russia One - two of the three main federal channels - while state-controlled energy giant Gazprom owns NTV.
TV is the main news source for most Russians. There is a fast-growing pay-TV market, led by satellite broadcaster Tricolor. The government is undertaking a project to bring digital TV to every Russian home.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present “global news from a Russian perspective”.
Since the Ukraine crisis, Russian state media have intensified the pro-Kremlin and nationalistic tone of their broadcasts, pumping out a regular diet of adulation for Mr Putin, nationalistic pathos, fierce rejection of Western influence and and attacks on the Kremlin’s enemies.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17840134
NATIONAL REVIEW-Lenin Meets Corleone
Then there are the Russian mass media, which are completely under the thumb of the regime, which function as an extension of the state, and which have created an alternative reality so comprehensive that its not altogether clear what the Russian people do and dont know although if the available polling data are to be believed, the overwhelming majority of Russians have swallowed, without much pushback, the regimes fictitious narrative of the immediate Russian past, the beleaguered Russian present, and the potentially glorious Russian future. That media barrage, combined with Putins appeal to classic Russian belief in the Fatherland and the fevered theories (propounded by some in the extended Putin circle) of a Muscovite Third Rome that will save Christian civilization, has done grave damage to Russian civil society. And because of that damage, Russian civil society has, thus far, proven incapable of producing dissident antibodies in sufficient numbers, and of sufficient strength to provide anything remotely resembling a check on Putins power, much less a challenge to it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415027/lenin-meets-corleone-george-weigel
“Freedom House” is 80% funded by NED (USG); also funded by USIA (USG), Soros, Pew, Ford, etc.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_House
Committee to Protect Journalists is funded by a variety of leftist media outlets, individuals, foundations, and corporations, including CBS, Dan Rather, Gwen Ifill, Ford Foundation, NYT, Pew, Brian Williams (!), The New Yorker, NBC, Harvard, Google, BBC, etc.
https://cpj.org/about/CPJ.2011.Annual.Report.pdf
BBC is the state funded propaganda arm of the UK.
NR is the flagship neocon magazine, whose mission, is to spread and support the USG’s phony campaign to spread “democracy,” “human rights,” “American exceptionalism,” as a cover for worldwide USG hegemony.
Only a Trump supporter would believe bogus articles like thus.