RIA Novosti abolished by Putin

RT's owner RIA Novosti, along with the Voice of Russia radio station have been abolished in a surprise move by Russian President Putin to be replaced by a new agency called Russia Today.

It's uncertain how this will affect RT and it's various services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25299116

It seems that President Putin is working to undo 23 of years of progress in Russia, and RT will become the Russian equivalent of Fox News, even down to the extremist right wing agenda. That will contrast wildly with some of the shows that exist on the station now such as The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann, and Breaking The Set. I imagine there will be wholesale changes pretty soon, and can't see the current crop of shows staying on RT, with the exception of CrossTalk.

I'm surprised considering Breaking the Set meets the objective of the Putin government to bash the United States and the West from within.

While leaning to the left in nature, the Moscow output is full of anti US, UK and EU sentiment in the generalisations of the bulletins and reports.

How RIA Novosti reported it's own demise.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131209/185390572/Russia-Announces-State-Owned-Media-Overhaul.html

The new agency will be headed by a anti-Western propagandist, Dmitry Kiselyov.

RT's own report claims the new agency and the existing RT are not directly connected.

http://rt.com/news/ria-novosti-overhaul-putin-960/

There may be a double meaning in this story on today's edition of Venture Capital which criticises Putin's policy on the ban of using corporate funds to have Christmas parties.

Vladimir Putin is nothing more than an odious, evil, hateful, nasty, vicious, deplorable, commie PoS. While it remains in

charge, Russia is rapidly returning to the sort of communist dictatorship it had before the Berlin Wall came down.

There's an edition of the Channel 4 news program "Unreported World" that shows the sort of things that followers
of Putin are capable of when it was still the Russian Prime Minister. The episode is called "Vlad's Army", about a
youth movement in Russia that idolises Putin, and has been compared with the Hitler Youth.

4OD ... Unreported World - Vlad's Army.

Very interesting, will have to take a look.

What about the Keiser Report, could that continue?

Well that was weird.