Russia Launches 'Patriotic' TV Channel

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MOSCOW -- Russia's Defense Ministry has launched experimental broadcasts of a new TV channel intended to boost military prestige and counter negative reports of hazing, desertions and corruption in the armed forces, its creators said Monday.

The new channel -- Zvezda or "Star" -- is aimed at developing "the feeling of national pride among its citizens ... a feeling of responsibility for Russia's fate and pride for the nation's great historic past and belief in its future," producers said in a news release.

"Zvezda is about the belief that our country is the most beautiful in the world, that our history is the most heroic and that the future is in our hands," said Ivan Kononov, a TV journalist and one of Zvezda's creators.

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[meegbear]

1. They gonna feed in Faux News and dub it in Russian?

:shrug:

[ulTRAX]

2. the trends are not good

And I think history may look back and see that it was not a good idea to isolate Russia as we've been doing with the expansion of the EU and Nato into the old Soviet Block... that is unless we were prepared to include Russia.

[AG78]

3. Who knew?

Billgor O'Reillyev and Seanimir Hannitytov to be the big ticket personalities in primetime.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. ahhhhh a Fox news Channel in CCCP

[liveoaktx]

5. We have the Pentagon Channel here in America PAID FOR BY US

Call Dish and tell them you don't want a channel of propaganda by the government.

[FLSurfer]

6. Sounds like a cross between

the military..uh... History channel and Faux News.
Didn't this used to be called propoganda? Now it's patriotism?