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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?
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Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu Good news for a free press in Russia, backed by promises, explicit and implicit, from Putin, and backed also by a healty competition:
1. New Head Vows 'Real' Independence for Russian NTV http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-media-r.html
by REUTERS
Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET ...... -
"MOSCOW ...Boris Jordan, a young U.S. banker chosen by state-dominated Gazprom to run Russia's only independent national television, NTV, shrugged off concerns about free speech on Saturday and vowed to give it real independence." 2. Interfax: Ousted NTV Boss to Run New Channel http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-media-r.html
by REUTERS
Filed at 12:40 p.m. ET ....
"MOSCOW - Ousted NTV general director Yevgeny Kiselyov was appointed acting head of another Moscow-based network on Saturday, just hours after new managers seized control of his former channel, Interfax reported. ............................ A spokeswoman for Kiselyov confirmed the offer, from TV6, but said the star journalist would consult with NTV colleagues loyal to founder Vladimir Gusinsky before deciding whether to accept. . .. . .... an person of rank involved believes "that a revamped TV6 can become a fully-fledged national television channel,''
VERY HEALTHY ! I'd be hardput indeed to think of
anything more helpful to Russia, and the world as a whole, than circumstances where Russian media not only "rise" to "western" standards, but
advance them -- serving truth
better than the American media does. In terms of straight rubles and sense -- nothing could be more helpful to the prosperity and honor of Russia - a country which needs good feedback systems, and checking systems, for the complex cooperations on which freedom, peace, and prosperity depend. (As do all other countries.)
***** I believe that a proud, efficient, well disciplined free press would be practical indeed, in the most tangible of ways, starting immediately. For example, in terms of debt negotiations, where notions of openness, verification, and fairness are paramount.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/14/business/14RUSS.html
Russia Trying to Head Off a Debt Crisis by
SABRINA TAVERNISE * * * * * * * almarst_2001, lunarchick and I have discussed this in this thread, and linkages to the discussion are set out in a letter I copied here, rshowalter 4/8/01 8:30am
which is marred by a statement corrected by
jqb00 . It suggests a way that leadership in journalism might be achieved, by building better feedback procedures than now exist in journalism. That could be done by taking advantage of new internet capabilities to extend extend limits that now limit the advantages free people can take from a free press. The limits on human memory and human tolerance of complexity can be extended, making the news media more effective and better disciplined servants of truth. In entertaining ways.
The meat of the suggestion is set out in
rshowalter 4/6/01 6:50am
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lunarchick 4/6/01 8:22am
  
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