600 Seconds
600 Seconds (1987-1993) is an immensely popular TV news program that aired in the Soviet Union and briefly in the post-Soviet Russia. It was a nightly broadcast from Leningrad TV with anchor Alexander Nevzorov. [1]
The program of the glasnost period was distinguished by its fast tempo and the display of the countdown from 600 to 0. [1] The anchor Nevzorov used the broadcast in order to criticize corrupt Soviet officials, promote preserving the Soviet Union (in the Baltic states, he is known as a fierce opponent of the people's independence movement). Later - during early Yeltsin years - the broadcast became a mouthpiece of Russian nationalist opposition to Yeltsin's policies and was banned twice - definitely after Yeltsin' victory in his conflict with the rebel parliament.
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