SAGALAYEV: YELTSIN REGIME TIGHTENING CONTROL OVER TV.

EduardSagalayev, the director of the privately-owned television Channel6, told Moskovskiye novosti (no. 51) that Yeltsin’s regimeis now seeking to exert even more control over television andradio broadcasts, albeit in different ways than did the Sovietauthorities in the past. He suggested that the means now used–pressurethrough commercial and criminal structures as well as direct administrativeinterference–would only intensify as the election campaign takesoff.

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