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This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 14 January 1993, reproduces a KRASNAYA ZVEZDA report on an expert commission reviewing the Russian military mass media system. The commission was chaired by Lieutenant General Konstantin Bogdanov. He reported that subsidized military newspaper and magazine print runs had fallen to 42 and 45 percent of their early 1992 levels. He listed the current publications, proposed a new soldier's journal, and criticized some papers for filling their pages with fiction and UFO stories to attract readers.
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## UNCLASSIFIED However, the market is dictating tough conditions to military journalists, just as it is to "civilian" journalists, for the survival of their publications. Therefore the editorial offices of military newspapers and magazines are looking for new topics and changing the way in which they present their material. It is true that some military publications, in trying to attract readers, are filling their pages with light fiction, detective stories, and yarns about UFO's. By doing this they are moving away from their principal tasks -- informing servicemen about the life of the Armed Forces, Gen. Bogdanov said in conclusion. (endall) 14 jan 18/1301z jan BT #9898 NNNN 18/1301z jan BT #9898 NNNN
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.