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Interview with Viktor Mashendzhinov

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Published 28 February, 2008, 16:06

One of the key figures in building up new media following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 – Viktor Mashendzhinov, who is now working for the union of journalists in St. Petersburg, says that the basic outcome of the Putin’s era is that the state is getting stronger together with the government, but now it is time to build civil society and free media.

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