Russian Disney Channel relieves lingering Cold War-era blackout on Wizards Of Waverly Place
The Walt Disney Co.’s ongoing effort to churn out a new crop of teen/tween idols every five years will soon extend to Russia, where a broadcast version of the Disney Channel is set to roll out in 2012. In a stark contrast to the “overly entertaining” content-suppressing policies enforced upon their former Communist comrades in China, the people of Russia will soon have free, unlimited access to such sterling examples of Disney programming as The Suite Life On Deck—where the spoils of the free-market economy are manifested through the petulant behavior of hotel heiress London Tipton—and Phineas And Ferb, where a pair of inventive, individualist stepbrothers attempt to outpace and outsmart the totalitarian rule of their older sister.