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| | Russia - The Media |
 | | The major newspapers, such as Pravda, Izvestiya, Krasnaya zvezda, and Komsomol'skaya pravda, were the official organs of party or government agencies, and radio and television were state monopolies. |
 | | In the late 1980s, these monopolies began to weaken as stories such as the Chernobyl' disaster reached the public in detail, an occurrence that would not have been possible before glasnost. |
 | | The third official national newspaper, Krasnaya zvezda, representing the Ministry of Defense, acquired a reputation in the 1990s as strongly pro-Yeltsin. |
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