The post-Soviet Russian media : conflicting signals

Part 1 : Media, politics and state

1. Free to get rich and fool around / Ivan Zassoursky

2. Where did it all go wrong : Russian television in the Putin era / John A. Dunn

3. Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia / Samuel A. Greene

4. The end of independent television : elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape / Tina Burrett

Part 2 : The language of the media

5. Putin and the tradition of the interview in Russian discourse / Anna Maslennikova

6. What's in a foreign word : negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Part 3 : The media and memory

7. The conundrum of memory : young people and their recollections of Soviet television / Ellen Mickiewicz

8. Commemorating the past

performing the present : television coverage of WWII victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood / Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova

Part 4 : Culture, state and empire in television serials

9. The culture of serialization, or the serialization of culture / Birgit Beumers

10. The state face : the empire's televisual imagination / Nancy Condee

Part 5 : New media, censorship and identity

11. New media, new Russians, new abroad : towards a non-nationalist paradigm / Robert Saunders

12. Russia's internet media policies : open space and ideological closure / Vlad Strukov