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Medvedev: The Country Doesn’t Read Less Nowadays
President-elect Dmitry Medvedev finds Russia’s TV “one of the best worldwide.” The official made this statement in the interview with Echo Moskvy Radio Station.
Asked about the current condition of Russia’s media, Medvedev said it was the booming market. “We long sometimes for the time when the country appeared to read more,” the president-elect said, referring to 1980s, when “any family subscribed to a few newspapers and thick magazines publishing the works that had been banned before. “The conditions are tougher nowadays,” the official specified.
But the country doesn’t read less, Medvedev said. “It isn’t so, the manner of reading has changed, the people that read serious literature, lots of newspapers have changed,” the president-elect pointed out. “This public segment, the mass media, could be called the market or the power branch. It is developing along with development of the whole society.”
“The form of providing the information has changed. Everything changes, but the main thing for mass media should be constant – the need to tell the truth and bear responsibility for published matter. It is the keystone that should be the basis for all media,” Medvedev emphasized.
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