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Russian Media To Face Restrictions
Posted by AP on 28 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Free Speech, RU, Media Freedom, Journalism, Libel, Human Rights, Censorship
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By AP The legislation, passed by the State Duma 339-1, is the latest attempt by the government to squeeze the country’s increasingly embattled news media. |
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Russia Seeks To Limit Foreigners In Media
Posted by Reuters on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, RU
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By Gleb Bryanski, Reuters Russia’s parliament is set to debate the controversial law this month amid a tussle between government officials and security services. |
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Russia: Freedom Of Speech ‘Shrinking’ In Putin’s Russia - New Report
Posted by Christine on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Europe, RU, Human Rights
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By Amnesty International Those threatened include Amnesty award-winning journalists. |
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Russian Blogs Antidote to Neutered Media
Posted by AP on 21 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, RU, Politics
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By Mike Eckel, AP In the final weeks of Russia’s presidential campaign, TV networks and other major media are filled with uncritical and often fawning coverage of the man President Vladimir Putin has blessed as his successor. |
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Journalist in Trouble for Piece on Putin
Posted by Moscow Times on 21 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, RU, Journalism
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By Svetlana Osadchuk, Moscow Times A Perm journalist has been questioned by local prosecutors and may face criminal charges after he penned an article identifying what he characterized as positive similarities between President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler. |
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Russian Reporter Released From Psychiatric Hospital After Nine Months
Posted by AP on 07 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, RU, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Human Rights
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By AP A Russian reporter who wrote critical articles about the military campaign in Chechnya was ordered released from a psychiatric hospital where he was kept against his will. |
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Investigators Know Who Killed Politkovskaya
Posted by Moscow Times on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Free Speech, RU, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Moscow Times According to investigators, they know who killed reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but have not determined who hired him. |
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Russians commemorate murdered journalist
Posted by The Guardian on 08 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, RU, Media Freedom, World Press
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By Tom Parfitt, Guardian UK Thousands of people across Russia yesterday held protests and vigils to mark the first anniversary of the death of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who was shot dead by an assassin in Moscow. |
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Our New Sputnik Moment
Posted by The Hill on 03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, RU, Economics, Technology, Telecommunications
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By Charles Benton, The Hill As America falls further behind in the world on broadband, we must seize upon the lessons of one chilly night 50 years ago tomorrow– Oct. 4, 1957. |
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Russia: Media Clampdown Sees Blogs Flourish
Posted by Radio Free Europe on 11 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Free Speech, RU, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Television, Activism
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By Chloe Arnold, Radio Free Europe Russians frustrated at television reports they see as having a pro-Kremlin bias are turning to blogs and Internet forums to debate political issues. |
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Four Charged in Politkovskaya Murder
Posted by Moscow Times on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, RU, Action, Terror
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By David Nowak, Moscow Times Prosecutors have charged four of the ten suspects arrested in the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a lawyer for one of the suspects said Tuesday. |
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Russia Says Politkovskaya Murder Ordered From Abroad
Posted by Reuters on 27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, RU, Media Freedom, Journalism, Activism
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By Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters Russian prosecutors said they detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia. |
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Psych Clinic Releases Russian Activist
Posted by Newsday on 21 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, RU, Ethics, Activism
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By Newsday.com Larisa Arap, 48, was forcibly hospitalized last month in what opposition activists said was revenge for exposing alleged abuse of children in a local psychiatric hospital. |
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Russian NGO Paralyzed, Director Flees
Posted by AP on 29 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, RU, Journalism
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By Steve Gutterman, AP A U.S.-funded non-governmental organization that trains journalists has been effectively shut down and its director has left Russia amid criminal prosecution, which her lawyers said Friday was part of a government campaign against NGOs. |
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Putin Unplugged
Posted by Huffington Post on 22 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, RU, Journalism
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By Jayne Lyn Stahl, Huffington Post While there was little that was novel in the Russian president’s press conference two weeks ago, it wasn’t so much what he said, but what wasn’t reported, that deserves a closer look. Where were the mainstream media? |
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