[chudogg]

If you dont think Putin elimanted all forms of the free press unless its some Pro-Putin propagandist rag then you are a stooge!

[RussianConservative]

Then you know not what you are talking about. There are many tv, radio and print media criticisms of government that much more vicious then main line US. As for "free", MediaMost and NTV were anything but free. They owned by oligarchs (Berezovsky and Guisnsky ) and nothing but mouth pieces for their political party: the rape and theft party...so loved by West....but funny West so hate Soros their friend...oh that right, because Soros rape West so he's bad but Oligarchs rape Russia so they good....there is word for such views.