Word: ekho
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...population, And there were few such demonstrations in other cities and towns across the USSR. Most people were sitting and waiting. Would the military have moved against the White House if someone had given the order? Some would have, I think. Not all, but enough to break the resistance. Ekho Moskvy, the outstanding news radio that the Putin administration has been doing its best to gut this past year, reported during the coup that some of the units moving into Moscow were in a very aggressive mood. As I heard this I was reminded of conversations a few months earlier...
...Internet, for as long as they can elude suppression. Last week the Kremlin went after TNT - a small Media-Most network that has housed many former NTV staffers since Gazprom's takeover - charging the network's accountant with tax evasion. Alexei Venediktov, the head of the popular radio station Ekho Moskvy, expects that "we'll be next in line," and sources tell Time that the Kremlin will soon kill off two liberal weeklies. The heat has also been turned up at TV-6, the channel controlled by exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky and now run by a group of former...
...also created a news operation highly critical of Putin's policies in places like Chechnya. Gazprom, meanwhile, is state-controlled and highly dependent on the Kremlin's graces. Moreover, the seizure was accompanied by an action that most shareholders could not have arranged: the respected news radio station Ekho Moskvy went off the air for a few minutes as guards moved into the NTV studios. (Ekho Moskvy is part of the Media-Most group but not the subject of any disputes.) The seizure of the studios and the walkout by the journalists may also have diminished American TV magnate...