United Russia gets 70% of party-related news segments on federal television two weeks before parliamentary election
Nearly 70% of the airtime that Russia’s largest federal TV channels devoted to political parties in the two weeks before the State Duma election went to the Kremlin-aligned United Russia party. Of the 89 minutes of party airtime from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, the ruling party received 62 minutes, according to monitoring by the Election Atlas project, which evaluated a total of 216 news broadcasts…
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