Russia/Weeklies

RFE/RL: Motherland to take over nationalist weekly?

"The Motherland party's Duma faction leader, Dmitrii Rogozin, told journalists on 27 July
that his party is in talks with the national-patriotic weekly "Zavtra," published by Aleksandr Prokhanov, about "an agreement on cooperation for the next five years," polit.ru and other media reported."

"Rogozin said he doesn't want to take control of "Zavtra," but "to create a pool of independent patriotic media, the epicenter of which will be 'Zavtra.'" An accord with "Zavtra" will allow the
newspaper to preserve its independence and Motherland to regulate the publication of its materials in the weekly, he added."

"A flagship of the national-patriotic media with a strong pro-imperial and anti-Western stance, "Zavtra" was created by Prokhanov in October 1993, after the weekly "Den" was banned for supporting the Russian parliament disbanded by President Boris Yeltsin."