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...have been instigated by the Kremlin. The once independent NTV now prerecords most of its flagship Freedom of Speech talk show. And in September the government appointed a new board to run the country's most credible polling organization, the Russian Institute for the study of Public Opinion (VTSIOM). Fearing state control, the Institute's staff walked out. The new Putin-friendly VTSIOM recently announced a survey showing that the pro-Kremlin United Russia party was 18% ahead of its main rival, the Russian Communist Party (kprf). But the breakaway VTSIOM-a group published its own data giving United Russia...