'Russian CNN' fizzles off air on third day 1 hour, 50 minutes ago MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's new round-the-clock English-language global television channel, intended to project the country's image abroad, went abruptly off air, two days after its long-trumpeted launch. Broadcasts by Russia Today, dubbed "Russia's CNN" by promoters, were interrupted and replaced with a test screen, apparently due to technical problems. An official in the office of the channel's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, refused to comment on the interruption, while the channel's press office was not answering telephone calls. The state-run RIA-Novosti news agency said the channel had suffered an...