LONDON - Normally a boisterous sort, Peter Pomerantsev says he kept quiet when he found himself, at the age of 24, in a Moscow meeting room listening to 20 of the country's top media executives discussing the news agenda for the week. Not what the news was, but what they would make it, said Pomerantsev, the author of a recent book chronicling the moral and financial corruption of modern-day Moscow and the manipulation of a Russian television industry that he later joined.
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A woman sews with a sewing machine as she watches a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, held in Moscow, in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Dec. 18, 2014.
