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Hello, comrades. Our production group
wasn't allowed into a factory,

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or else a plant or a construction site.
This has happened many times.

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They're scared that we might
shoot some critical footage.

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Before, when we only shed light on
the positive side of things, this never happened.

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They let us go wherever we wanted.

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In the future, we will continue to shed
light on the positive side of life, the
visible experience of perestroika.

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But there's nothing worse than stagnant
water standing where it is supposed to flow.

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And so it is with our
journalistic discourse,

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when it falls into the whirlpool
of congratulatory epithets,

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it's like it becomes distilled water
that you can't drink and you can't wash with.

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That's how it used to be,
and that's how it still is.

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Today interest in the press, including
the electronic press, which we represent,

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has grown immeasurably, because there is
so much more truth in
our articles and broadcasts.

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Somebody evidently doesn't like
this, and today we will even

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name some concrete names.
Just who doesn't like it.

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What do you think about publications and
broadcasts that reveal the problems in our life?

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Uh, nah, uh, I can't answer.

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But we found more than
one person like that.

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Let's stop on Moscow Boulevard
by the newspaper display.

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We read several titles of
articles and comments.

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We catch ourselves wanting to
read more, just like these people.

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The criticisms aimed at our problems,

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at the acceleration of perestroika,
don't always, I think,

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reach the Ministry.

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Evidently there are still some
people who don't like this.

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What do you think, are all the problems
in our life reflected in the press?

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No, of course not all.

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We live in the era of glasnost, and there

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has to be more information, not only about

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our internal affairs, but also some foreign ...

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Nowadays there's much more glasnost in
our newspapers, and before there wasn't any.

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Of course, the press is
the mirror of our life.

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Just a mirror ... I'd like to turn your attention

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to one proposition in a well known article

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in PRAVDA from April 5 of this year.

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I quote: some people are prepared to blame all

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the unpleasantnesses and
misfortunes of our current life

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on that fact that newspapers
have "started to blab".

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They have opinions about everything,
they stir up public opinion, etc.

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We must recognize that these newspaper
columns are only a secondary phenomenon,

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the primary cause is in life itself.

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If we don't want to read
about problems in the newspapers,

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there shouldn't be any in our life.