On 12/09/2013 03:39 PM, Hils wrote:
On 2013-12-09 15:02, dave wrote:
On 12/09/2013 06:58 AM, Beloved Leader wrote:
Hat tip, JMG.

Russian news agency RIA Novosti closed down
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25299116


Russia's President Vladimir Putin has abolished the country's
state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.

In a surprise decree published on the Kremlin's website on Monday, Mr
Putin announced it would be replaced by a news agency called Russia
Today.

The new agency will be headed by journalist and keen Kremlin
supporter Dmitry Kiselev.

The state-owned Voice of Russia radio station has also been closed.
The decree was effective immediately.


RT and Novosti are both mouthpieces for Putin, but even as such they do
a better job than any USA news channel.

They were excellent during the oligarch/fundamentalist Syrian war campaign.

According to RIA Novosti itself:

"News agency RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio are
to be scrapped and absorbed into Rossiya Segodnya. [...]

The move to dissolve RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia is the latest in a
series of shifts in the country's news landscape, which appear to point
toward a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated
media sector.

Presidential administration head Sergei Ivanov said the changes were
about saving money and making state media more effective."

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131210/185...ias-Image.html

Is Max Keiser going away? Will I have to watch him on the IRI channel?