Thus, the study of Soviet Russian media throws light on a variety of the world’s media systems, even though privatizing and liberalizing media are increasingly visible globally as time goes by....

Thus, the study of Soviet Russian media throws light on a variety of the world’s media systems, even though privatizing and liberalizing media are increasingly visible globally as time goes by. (Privatizing and liberalizing are not the same thing, as we will see in the next section.)