Paul Goble: Crisis in Russian media reflects three underlying trends, Kobrin says
A woman wipes her flat's floor as she watches a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, held in Moscow, on December 18, 2014 in St. Petersburg.
STAUNTON - Most commentators on the media scene in Russia blame its current sad state on the Kremlin's effort to control those parts of it with the largest audience - television in particular - and to restrict or isolate other sectors so that they will represent a simulacrum of media freedom without being the threat to the regime that a free media would be.
