February 25, 2011 By Citizen M

TV Appearance Offer Fails to Woo Opposition

posnergzt.jpgFew and far between are the opportunities for opposition politicians to have a platform on Russia’s state-tun television (or Russia’s state-run streets, it would seem).  Nonetheless, Channel One’s Vladimir Pozner has apparently committed to previously mentioned plans to invite Solidarity co-leader Boris Nemtsov to his talkshow in March, and claims he would consider inviting liberal commentator Valeriya Novodvorskaya, and even Kremlin adversary Garry Kasparov.  It seems however that the potential guests hold no illusions about the nature of the interviews.  From the Other Russia:

Nemtsov said he expects the piece to be a fluff interview that would avoid any controversial topics. “I think the questions are going to be posed in such a way as to follow the general outline of the channel,” he said. “They’ll be about my health; my children.”