August 31, 2009

At Moscow State U., 2 Journalism Schools, Divided by Politics

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Yelena Vartanova, dean of the longtime Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State U.: "The independent journalism we teach at the faculty is a dangerous profession in Russia these days."

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Moscow State U.

Yelena Vartanova, dean of the longtime Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State U.: "The independent journalism we teach at the faculty is a dangerous profession in Russia these days."

By Anna Nemtsova

Moscow

On the downtown branch campus of Moscow State University, students sit in a small classroom, scanning the Internet for the top news stories of the day. They are part of a 61-year-old journalism program that blossomed as the Soviet Union fell apart and independent reporting became an alluring new profession. Within a few years, televised scenes of former President Boris Yeltsin's tanks rolling into Chechnya had encouraged a generation of journalists looking to document, objectively, the major

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