Reporter's Notebook: How Putin's Television Covered The Nemtsov Killing — rferl.org

To get on Russian TV, Boris Nemtsov had to do just one thing: Die. Shunned by state channels for years, the 55-year-old former deputy prime minister was suddenly a celebrity after being ambushed by a gunman as he walked with a girlfriend late on a Friday night. In the days following the February 27 killing, it was fascinating to watch how the coverage unfolded and how the various tasks of that coverage evolved.

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