Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Arja Rosenholm, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Elena Trubina -- Mapping the media landscape. Contemporary structure of the Russian media industry / Elena Vartanov, Sergei Smirnov -- Changing media use in Russia / Jukka Pietil�ainen, Irina Fomicheva, Ludmila Resnianskaia -- A new generation of journalists / Svetlana Pasti -- Biopolitics of the media. "We must all give birth : that's an order" : the Russian mass media commenting on V. V. Putin's address / Arja Rosenholm, Irina Savkina -- Portrayal of health policy in Russian newspapers / Marina Bondarik -- Eastern cowboys : masculine selves and coping with stressful life in the Russian edition of Men's health magazine / Ilkka Pietil�a -- In search of a "new (wo)man" : gender and sexuality in contemporary Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi -- Media as the arbiters of style. "Family-- that's an opera" : creativity and family representations in Russian women's magazine Krestianka / Saara Ratilainen -- Modern Russian entertainment TV : "live well now, ask me how" / Natalia Mikhailova -- Russian glamour and its representations in post-Soviet mass media / Maria Litovskaia, Olga Shaburova -- Between a good home and a good city : the privatization of residential life in Russian lifestyle journalism / Elena Trubina.