The sole, local terrestrial TV service is an opt-out of the national state-owned TV channel Rossiya.
In March he launched a twice-weekly national newspaper, Rossiya, which is due to go daily.
The Rossiya had all the elegance of a giant concrete box dumped unceremoniously behind St Basil's Cathedral.
In an untucked shirt and slipping bifocals, he gave an interview to the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1.
The new charges against Mr Browder were read live on Russian state television's rolling news channel, Rossiya 24.
Far more dangerously, the Rossiya has long been infested by criminal gangs controlling its sinister corridors and gloomy arcades.
Filin's lawyer, however, told the Rossiya television channel that Vorontsova is unlikely to be the only cause of the conflict.
In recent years the Rossiya's ugliness has been matched by its seediness.
In Russia, Rossiya 1 TV said the Venezuelan authorities have denied that President Chavez was in a coma, as claimed by the Spanish media.
Find a foreign investor, he said, who would pay to demolish the Rossiya and build something else on the site more in keeping with the surroundings.
Only the official channel Rossiya provided an analysis of the new US presidency in its main evening bulletin, saying that it was unlikely to live up to expectations.
Given management problems like that, small wonder the city government has been unsuccessful in a four-year search for foreign investors rich and deranged enough to take on the Rossiya.
"We believe that investigators still have a lot of work to do to establish all of the facts, " Filin's lawyer Tatyana Stukalova said in an interview on Rossiya state television.
The hospital was a "special regime" facility, meaning patients were locked in and there were bars over many of the building's window, the Moscow region's acting Governor Andrei Vorobyov told Rossiya 24 television.
The Rossiya report also noted that the new president had expressed doubts about the missile defence shield in Europe, but suggested this was not the fundamental reason for a recent deterioration in relations.
"Contrary to two rulings by a Thai criminal court which concluded that Viktor Bout's guilt was not proven, he has still - by a decision of the Thai government - been extradited to the United States, " Mr Lavrov told Rossiya TV on Tuesday.
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