“We are now living in a quasi-state of war,” says Alexei Venediktov, the head of Ekho Moskviy, a radio station that has been the cornerstone of liberal press in Russia for three decades. The station’s board of directors has decided to to disband the outlet following government moves this week to clamp down on the few independent media left in the country Venediktov told AFP - but pledges his journalists will keep on working. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES