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?) As a news medium, the press has been comfortably overtaken by television, which is more popular, has far wider reach and attracts heavier investment.

?) Consumption of serious newspapers is, however, showing signs of decline.

?) They remain relatively expensive for those living outside the big cities, and while all the major national titles are based in Moscow, many Russians living in the regions prefer to take local papers instead.

?) Although its readership is now considerably smaller, its mix of political analysis and speculation, patriotic sentiment, high-profile interviews, regional supplements and consumer advice has ensured its prominence on Russia's news stands.

?) The popular Argumenty i Fakty weekly has the highest circulation of any Russian newspaper. Founded in 1978, it quickly gathered a strong following, with a reported circulation of more than 33 million in 1990.

?) One of Russia's largest banks, Promsvyazbank, has a controlling interest in the paper, which describes its readers as "working people, businessmen, intellectuals, politicians and managers".

?) In June 2005, the media arm of state-controlled energy giant Gazprom bought a majority stake, and although some observers saw the paper adopting a clear pro-Kremlin line, its new owners said the changes were driven by commercial considerations.

?) The Izvestia daily at one time enjoyed a reputation as Russia's paper of record. Popular during the Soviet era, it continued to enjoy wide readership in the 1990s, while remaining a particular favourite among intellectuals and academics.

?) In May 2008, Gazprom sold its majority stake on to the SOGAZ insurance company. SOGAZ is part of a group controlled by the St Petersburg-based Bank Rossiya, whose co-owner, Yuriy Kovalchuk, is widely reported to be a close associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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?) Vedomosti is owned by the

?) Independent Media Sanoma Magazines publishing

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?) The paper's stated mission is

?) to "provide the business community

?) Moskovsky Komsomolets combines

?) mass-market content with broadsheet format

?) The popular Moscow daily

?) living in the capital, who form its core readership

?) focuses on issues of interest to people

?) Much of the paper's reporting

?) regional editions as well as supplements

?) catering for audiences in the former Soviet republics

?) It also publishes a series of

?) Advertising is the techniques

?) and practices used to bring products, services, opinions, or causes to publicnotice for the purpose of persuading the public

?) to respond in a certain way toward what is advertised

?) (e.g., newspapers, magazines, or television stations) through which it is conducted

?) In many countries advertising is

?) the most important source of income for the media

?) advertising has become a large and

?) In the noncommunist world

?) important service industry

?) Most advertising involves promoting

?) for political candidates, among many other examples

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?) pictures per second and to simulate thereby the motion of the scene so that it appears to be continuous

?) smoothly, it is customary to transmit

?) In practice, to depict rapid motion

?) from 25 to 30 complete pictures per second

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?) accommodate a wide range of subject matter

?) This analysis implies that the

?) over the television system exceeds 4,000,000 per second

?) rate at which these details are transmitted

?) To provide a system suitable

?) for public use and also capable of such

?) speed has required the full resources of modern electronic technology