NEWS: RADIO, RUMORS AND GOSSIP.
Publication: North Caucasus Weekly Volume: 2 Issue: 5
How do ethnic Chechens living in the Republic of Chechnya get their information? In an interview with the website Utro, Shamil Beno, the pro-Moscow plenipotentiary representative of the Chechen Republic to the Kremlin, recently noted: “We conducted sociological research which found…that more than 20 percent of inhabitants get their information from [the American-supported] Radio Liberty. Another 20 percent listen to Free Chechnya [a separatist station]. The remaining population gets its information from rumors and gossip” (Utro, January 11).
