Censorship claim by Russian broadcast journalists

Journalists at one of Russia's biggest private radio networks claim that they had been told to keep Kremlin critics off the air by new managers brought in from state-run television. Staff at the Russian News Service said their bosses had blocked live reports from anti-Kremlin protests and refused to allow the chess champion and opposition activist Garry Kasparov from being mentioned. Almost all major broadcast media in Russia have come under Kremlin control since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. (Via International Herald Tribune/Reuters)