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Pak President Admits Creating Terrorist Groups
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Expanding Iran Sanctions In Unimportant Ways: European Satellite Provider Blocks Iran TV
Eutelsat takes 19 Iranian TV, radio channels off the air as part of EU sanctions on Islamic Republic as of Monday morning.
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U.S. to End Pro-Democracy Broadcasts in Russia
[Free Beacon] America's broadcast voice in Russia will soon be silenced following Moscow's ratification of a new law that will force a legendary broadcasting company to abandon the Russian airwaves.

Radio Liberty (RL), a division of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE), recently fired a large portion of its staff after the passage of a Russian law prohibiting foreign-owned media outlets from broadcasting on AM frequencies.

The unexpected mass layoffs came as a shock to RL journalists and Russian human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
 activists alike, and spurred accusations that the B.O. regime is kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile...
 as he seeks to silence the democratic voice that helped topple communism.

"The timing of it, the way it was done, and the lack of explanation" sends an unfortunate message, said David Kramer, president of the human rights organization Freedom House. "It creates the impression, whether intended or not, that the U.S. is pulling out [of Russia], and that's not the impression we want to leave."
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Posted by: Fred || 10/16/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These broadcasts are many times more important and communicative than the stupid state department. 3 levels of shit to voice versus 54. VOA important.
Posted by: newc || 10/16/2012 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Radio talk shows tend to taint the model. What did the Champ get in return ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/16/2012 4:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Why would one Chicago pol talk down about another Chicago style pol when both have very little use of real democracy as both lust for POWER? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2012 9:03 Comments || Top||



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