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Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: A, City University of New York Brooklyn College, course: Analysis of media information in Russia and the West, language: English, comment: Deep appreciation to my professors and mentors who put me on the right track to understanding of International Affairs. I want to thank professors who made my life miserable,as I thought, by teaching comprehensive research and analysis of complicated issues in politics and economics. On the stage of developing global financial crisis, I could not accomplish this work without guidance, critic and support of Dr. Mark Ungar, an extraordinary adviser to graduate students, to my mentor, global visionary, and expert in policies Dr. Mojubaoulu O. Okome, to Dr. Arnold and Janet Johnson. Thank you. , abstract: There is a common view among Western scholars, politicians, and media professionals that Russia continues to be an authoritarian state, due to its history, and that it has recently begun to stray away from democratic processes or even slide back into moderate totalitarianism. Even worse, The Freedom House report (2009) ranked Russia one of the world's most repressive societies, putting it next to Rwanda. However, this and other reports present a distorted picture of democratic development in Russia, which reflects conflicting views between the Western and Russian understanding and measurement of democratic and non-democratic media systems, press pluralism, ownership structures, relative autonomy from the state, negative and positive control of press content, the role of ideology, and the legal frame that protects freedom of speech.