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Come August, Russians brace for trouble. This has become a habit since August 1991, when hard-liners attempted an abortive coup to squash Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
...previous week vacationing in Italy after covering the siege of Sukhumi, in Georgia, returned Oct. 3 to find Moscow plunged into bitter fighting. He stopped off at home long enough to catch up on the TV coverage, then headed for the city center, where armed clashes outside the Ostankino television center cut off the broadcast. Correspondent Sally Donnelly, who had recently arrived from Los Angeles to begin a tour of duty in Moscow, was in the midst of a leisurely get-acquainted drive around the capital when she and reporter Ann Simmons found themselves snarled in a riot-caused traffic...
...suave young man in a red tie and gray pinstripe suit is seen walking through a grove of trees outside Moscow's Ostankino television center. Vladimir Molchanov, 37, host of the late-night television show Before and After Midnight, is opening his monthly broadcast with an elegiac monologue on the passing of summer. By the time Molchanov has entered the studio, oak branch in hand, Soviet viewers have been treated to brisk, taped reports on an Australian stork breeder, a Japanese horseback-riding robot and the world's largest egg. The 90-minute show also features videos from rock stars...
Some Soviet television critics take a measured view of the changes. The only truly fresh idea developed at Ostankino headquarters, they contend, has been the "music-information" program, a formula that has been successfully repeated three times in View, Before and After Midnight and 120 Minutes. Critic Lidiya Polskaya of Literaturnaya Gazeta even suggests that the two national channels should compete with each other to spur greater imagination and innovation. "The workings of Central Television are like a closed black box," she argues. "There is no place for such a monopoly during a period of perestroika. The truth is that...
...Soviets, too, were playing hardball. Authorities at the spanking new Olympic TV center at Ostankino in northern Moscow have told journalists who want to transmit footage back home via the center's facilities that any film will be rejected if it strays even slightly from the subject of sports. The first victim of this policy was Klaus Bednarz, a correspondent for the West German network ARD. His report, titled The Olympics and Propaganda, was turned down flat by officials, so he had to send it by air freight...