Russia: “Moscow Calm – Before the Storm”

At GlobalPost, Miriam Elder reports from Moscow on the March 29 subway attacks: “It's this lack of information that helps breed the conspiracy theories that are so rife. In the U.S., we're used to nonstop programming when the slightest (or largest) thing goes wrong. Here, state-run television ran its regular programming of soap operas, nature shows, variety shows and badly translated American films.”

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