RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb. 14, 2008
TODAY: Medvedev wants 24-hour farming TV; advertising firms being coerced for billboard space in run-up to elections. News of Patarkatsishvili death hits the British press; Yushchenko to pass law on military bases following Putin’s threats. President Vladimir Putin said that it would be “absolutely unacceptable” for him to stay in power after his second Presidential term ends. Presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev has called for a 24-hour television channel on farming. Executives at two Russian advertising firms say they are being “coerced” by authorities into providing billboard space for United Russia.