To what extent has the post-communist regime transformed the broadcasting media in Russia?

... To what extent has the post-communist regime transformed the broadcasting media in Russia? The world in the twentieth century experienced a wave of democratisation. The most significant was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism in Eastern Europe. Among the challenges confronting these countries was the transformation of their state broadcast structures into independent democratic systems. "A country's mass media system mirrors the political, social, economic, and geographic conditions of that nation, revealing the character and nature of that society," (Heard, S, 1985, World broadcasting systems: A comparative analysis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing co.) The Russian post-communism media industry has been around for more than 10 years. Together with the whole country, it took part in all its national and regional cataclysms. The country now has quite a well-developed system of broadcasting media. Russia has around 3,000 broadcasting companies and an actively growing Internet industry. Every large city with

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