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Russia - TV for the Masses



Television in Russia has gone from grey, censored, state controlled tedium to perhaps the brashest and trashiest in the world. Moscow correspondent Eric Campbell profiles some of the more extreme examples in this week's postcard. There's 'Highway Patrol' where the TV cameras record every gory detail of the city's murders, and broadcast them at prime time. Then there's 'Interception' where contestants are given a car to see if they can outrun the police in a high speed car chase. If they can evade the police for 35 minutes they keep the car.

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