Strategies of creating a dominant party – the case of UR
that power.
State control over the media has increased rapidly after Putin took office. The most significant
changes concern the television. Two of the three major federal television channels - Channel
One and Russia TV- are state owned and in 2001, Gazprom-Media, a media branch of the
giant state-owned gas company, Gazprom, took over NTV and most of the other assets of
Gusinsky's Media-Most company (Bessudnov 2008: 183). The Russian print media has
largely followed the same path as television: although many of the newspapers are in the
hands of private owners and are officially autonomous, free from the Kremlin's control, they
have repeatedly been accused of serving the interests of the ruling elite.
Conclusion
Since the establishment of the party, United Russia has overwhelmingly dominated the
landscape of Russia's party politics. Yet, many political and institutional modifications were
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