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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 06 > For Obama visit, Russia mutes a TV pastime: ranting at the U.S.

For Obama visit, Russia mutes a TV pastime: ranting at the U.S.

By Ellen Barry / The Bulletin
July 6, 2009

MOSCOW — When Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev meet behind closed doors here today, among those on tenterhooks will be the television commentator Mikhail Leontyev, who has built a career on his relentless hectoring of the West.

In his prime-time slot on state-controlled....

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