Russian television host Vladimir Posner has failed to live up to his promise to invite opposition politicians onto his popular talk show before the end of March, Kasparov.ru reports.
In an interview on February 24, Posner spoke to GZT.ru about his plans to invite oppositionists who are effectively banned from appearing on state-controlled television onto his show. The first, he said, would be Solidarity co-leader Boris Nemtsov, whom he planned to invite sometime in March.
"I plan to invite Boris Nemtsov. I’m definitely going to refer to the conversation with Putin that took place in the presence of [Channel One General Director] Konstantin Ernst and another 25 people from the channel,” Posner said at the time.
But on April 1, which happened to be Posner’s 77th birthday in addition to the end of March, Nemtsov wrote in abirthday greeting to the host that neither he nor ...