Russia’s leading business paper is being gagged

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Journalists at Vedomosti fear their newspaper may become another mouthpiece for the Kremlin and the state-controlled oil giant

, Russia’s leading business newspaper, appeared in September 1999, a month after Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister and anointed as future president. It was half pink and half white, a tribute to its foreign co-founders and shareholders: theThe timing of the new venture was brave. Russia was reeling from its financial crisis of 1998 and heading into a brutal war in Chechnya. But the economy started to grow, private businesses sprang up andwas there to write about them.

said in its first editorial. It took to the principles of its Anglo-Saxon shareholders with the zeal of the convert. Its code of conduct stated that “A journalist must treat all events, firms and people with equal scepticism. Nobody is entitled to special treatment—least of all the shareholders, advertisers and the so-called oligarchs.”

Over the past two decades, the paper has largely stayed true to its code, protected first by its foreign owners and later by its own reputation. But in the past few weeks a revolt by its staff has begun against the new acting editor, Andrei Shmarov, an old-style journalist from the 1990s, who was imposed on the paper by its prospective buyers as part of a murky and yet to be completed takeover.

Paradoxically, investigative journalism and critical analysis have been thriving in Russia, mostly online. But as Maxim Trudolyubov, acolumnist and editor-at-large, argues, what is going on at his paper is an attack on an institution that embodied the values of fair, rules-based market competition and transparency.was critical, but never an opposition newspaper. It shunned activism because it believed business had to be separate from politics, just as opinion and reporting were on its pages.

 

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America’s journalists are muzzled by the cutbacks and content control of private equity ownership.

Health tip for Russian journos: stay away from any windows.

You leftwing media frauds are a mouthpiece for the US democrat party, which attempted a coup against a president — against the will of the American people.

Well, they sure as hell can't be as bad as our American Mainstream Media outlets that are 70% controlled by internationalist elements of Political-Judaism whose intent was to be involved in a 'coup d'etat' against the U.S. President & undermine our American government! Fake News!

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