Podcast covers Putin's control of Russian news media
Lucian Kim has covered Russia and Eastern Europe since 1996 for the Christian Science Monitor and other publications. He recently moved to Washington after five years as Moscow correspondent for National Public Radio, receiving a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Interviewed by longtime National Press Club member Irv Chapman ,for the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club podcast, Kim traces how Vladimir Putin tightened the screws over time on Russia's news media as he faced critical coverage of popular discontent, notably over rigged elections a decade ago, and now has eliminated independent media entirely.
Kim says until last month, correspondents for foreign media could work freely, though sources dried up as Putin cracked down.