[cma-l] The Red Web:- Broadcast Material for Community Radio

[terry mechan]

Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan  are two of Moscow’s top investigative journalists who have been interviewed for a Community Radio documentary called “The Red Web”

The Red Web is an up-to-date insight into Russia today and will contribute to your speech content figures

The programme, which has just gone out on two CR’s,  is now freely available without station ID for any FM or Internet stations who would like to use it in their own programme schedule.

Programme description

The programme shows how Russian Society is completely different from the West.
According to Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, authors of the Red Web, the majority of it's citizens have never really understood the concept of democracy.
No committee decisions in Russia:- the Top Man had always decided everything. 
And in order to maintain power, Social Network users and the Internet are closely monitored.
Anything that looks like dissent can lead you to prison for a few years to intimidate others.
And forget about the rule of Law.
In the absence of any detailed legal framework, disputes which once used to be solved by the Russian Mafia are now taken to the new Godfathers in Russia, The Police and the Security Services.
According to Soldatov and Borogan, this had led to widespread corruption in which owners of businesses are jailed so whole enterprises can be taken over.


You can hear a snippet or download the whole programme from here 

Terry Mechan



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