Abstract
Several recent reports in the press state that, according to public opinion surveys carried out in the spring of 2001, some 57 or 58 per cent of the population of the Russian Federation would welcome the establishment of an official censorship organization in their country,2 despite the existence of a law on state secrets (since 1993), of a military censorship directorate within the Ministry of Defence,3 and of a wide range of unofficial types of censorship and self-censorship.4 According to an even more recent source,5 71.9 per cent of the population thinks that, ‘on the whole’, state control over the media should be introduced, with only 22.1 per cent opposed to this.
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