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...last prime-time newscast before the raid neatly highlighted the chasm between the smooth theory and the turbulent reality of Putin's Russia. NTV has shone a spotlight on this divide, while state networks feign not to see it. The Kremlin would clearly like to turn NTV's spotlight off. The first news item was the return home from a Swiss jail of Pavel Borodin, the high-ranking Russian official who a few years ago found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been...
...Kremlin and its allies have portrayed the campaign to close NTV as purely a financial affair: an aggrieved shareholder, the state natural gas monopoly Gazprom, demanding its money back from a feckless and allegedly dishonest tycoon. In fact the move was born of Putin's deep dislike for that tycoon, NTV's owner and founder Vladimir Gusinsky, who could use his station for vendettas but 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...
Last Wednesday was deliverance day for Vladimir Gusinsky. When a Madrid court turned down Russia's request to extradite the 48-year-old media magnate on fraud charges - ending his 10-month tussle with Kremlin prosecutors - Gusinsky savored his redemption. Fielding congratulatory calls on three phones at his villa in Sotogrande, he told one well-wisher, "This isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning...
TIME.com: Now that the Kremlin has completed its coup against the independent media owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, the journalists at NTV have lost their battle, while those at some of the group's magazines and newspapers have lost their jobs, too. What does the future hold for independent-minded journalists in Russia...
...Kremlin's strategy has been to hobble NTV at the knees and then split up the Gusinsky empire, because there are journalists who need to make a living, and enough business interests at stake that people can be won over to the new Kremlin-backed management on the basis of purely economic and commercial need...