tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10002108.post6314233298353725360..comments2023-03-27T04:13:44.272-04:00Comments on Learning to Speak: LackadazicalAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17756534785986612945noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10002108.post-57018284301816991642007-12-09T06:11:00.000-05:002007-12-09T06:11:00.000-05:00hey abigail, i'm "lebenohnegebaeude" from the cs-f...hey abigail, i'm "lebenohnegebaeude" from the cs-forum, and i just thought i'd leave something here for you. i like your blog a lot, it's great to see young people (as if i was so old haha) caring about what happens around them. as for the newspaper and press freedom things, it probably depends on which newspaper you were reading. there are some critical ones, like Новая газета, which is the one Анна Политковская worked for. as you know she was murdered, so erm, i guess that means there's not that much freedom after all. (and she's not a single case, she was just the most popular one. but you know that anyways.) like, you CAN theoretically criticize the system and if i'm not mistaken there's a law supposed to make sure there's press freedom established in the Горбачёв-era, as a result of the гласность-process he initiated, but: you put yourself in serious danger by doing it. as you might notice, i'm pretty much digging the topic right now, and i found an article that says that unfortunately the russians aren't very interested in reading political newspapers, and that's why good critical newspapers don't sell very well. a reason for this might be the raising awareness that voting doesn't really make a difference and as they can't really take part in political decisions, they just lose interest at all. (which makes it kind of a vicious circle i think...) anyways, getting to the point of it all, if you're interested in the whole media thing, i recommend you to take a look at www.smi.ru, it's kind of a collection of russian mass-media of all kinds, newspapers, online-media, radio stations,... i just thought you might find that interesting.<BR/>i hope you're having a good time in yakutsk, i'm leaving for tomsk in about a month and i'm starting to get quite nervous about it.. keep on blogging in a free world ;) <BR/>greets from austriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com