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July 8th, 2004

The Russian Newspaper Murders
Data: History, Newspapers, and Russia

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev promises openness (”glastnost”) and restructuring (”perestroika”).
1988 The Communist Party agrees to allow a private sector.
1989 Russia holds its first openly contested election for parliament.
1990 The Communist Party votes to end the one-party system.
1991 Gorbachev resigns as the Soviet Union breaks up.
1993 President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and orders new elections.
1993 Russians approve a new constitution
1995 The Communist Party wins largest share in parliamentary elections.
1997 Russia is admitted to the G-7 consortium of industrialized nations.
1999 Yeltsin resigns and is replaced by Vladimir Putin.
2000 New Russian national anthem is replaced when old Soviet anthem is reinstated with new words.
2002 TV-6, Russia’s last independent national station is closed. It returns to air under Kremlin control six months later as TVS.
2002 Reporters Without Borders ranks Russia as 148th in press freedom, behind Zimbabwe and Afghanistan.
2004 An outspoken TV news anchor is pulled off the air and his popular news program is cancelled.

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