Transition
The last Soviet-era Vremya newscast was broadcast on August 1991. The closure was due to pressure from Russian President Boris Yeltsin claiming that the programme was "too tied to the CPSU". When the USSR dissolved in December that year, the programme changed broadcasters from Soviet Central Television to the new Ostankino Television 1 and 4. It stayed even until after the network's name change to ORT-1 (Public Russian Television-1, Russian: Общественное Российское Телевидение, Obshchestvennoe Rossiyskoy Televidenie) in November 1994, and Ostankino 4's reformatting into NTV that same year.
The programme was revived on December 14, 1994 on ORT 1 in time to report on the looming conflict in Chechenya. The format was then changed to that of a single-presenter one, but the dual-presenter one was kept for special editions of the program, and was even incorporated into the newscast's 1995-96 opening sequence.
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