Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he does not deem it necessary to get rid of state-run media in Russia.
"I am not sure that we need to be running away from state-run media," Medvedev said at the Russian-German forum St. Petersburg Dialogue, which is currently underway in Yekaterinburg.
He said that there was room for the media to be run both privately and by the state.
"There is no point in setting the task of discarding state media when both [private and state-run] can exist side by side," Medvedev said.
The president also said that the transition to digital technology and the development of the Internet have blurred the boundary between state and private media.
YEKATERINBURG, July 15 (RIA Novosti)
