This is because of the experience with oligarch-owned mass media.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------ Majority of Russians favor media censorship - Poll
MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - Over half of Russians - 57% - believe that it is
necessary to impose censorship over the Russian media, 35% disagree with this idea, and 8% were undecided.
Interfax has obtained this information from the monitoring.ru sociological survey group, which derived it from a nation-wide poll of over 1,300 people living in cities in May.