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Part 1: Media, Politics And State -- Free To Get Rich And Fool Around / Ivan Zassoursky -- Where Did It All Go Wrong? Russian Television In The Putin Era / John A. Dunn -- Shifting Media And The Failure Of Political Communication In Russia / Samuel A. Greene -- The End Of Independent Television? Elite Conflict And The Reconstruction Of The Russian Television Landscape / Tina Burrett -- Part 2: The Language Of The Media -- Putin And The Tradition Of The Interview In Russian Discourse / Anna Maslennikova -- What's In A Foreign Word? Negotiating Linguistic Culture On Russian Radio Programmes About Language / Lara Ryazanova-clarke -- Part 3: The Media And Memory -- The Conundrum Of Memory: Young People And Their Recollections Of Soviet Television / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Commemorating The Past/performing The Present: Television Coverage Of The Second World War Victory Celebrations And The (de)construction Of Russian Nationhood / Stephen Hutchings And Natalia Rulyova -- Part 4: Culture, State And Empire In Television Serials -- The Serialisation Of Culture, Or The Culture Of Serialisation / Birgit Beumers -- The State Face: The Empire's Televisual Imagination / Nancy Condee -- Part 5: New Media, Censorship And Identity -- New Media, New Russians, New Abroad: The Evolution Of Minority Russian Identity In Cyberspace / Robert A. Saunders -- Russia's Internet Media Policies: Open Space And Ideological Closure / Vlad Strukov. Edited By Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings And Natalia Rulyova. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-240) And Index.