PROFESSIONAL ROLES OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS Two generations of the journalists - Soviet and the post-Soviet - make journalism in contemporary Russia. The difference is in how the young generation quite critically estimates the Soviet experience and thinks that until the crucial reforms of liberalisation journalism was a completely different profession. The basic distinction between the old and the new journalism, according to young generation lies in the approach toward information, particularly what information goes …showed first 75 words of 7200 total…

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