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Russia – Government eager to use Net surveillance software currently in test phase
Reporters Without Borders condemns plans by Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal supervisory agency for communications, information technology and mass media, to use search software to track down “extremist” content on the Internet. The agency is currently testing the software and intends to start using it in December. When Roskomnadzor’s software, using very vague criteria, decides that a website has “extremist” content, the site will be given three days to remove it. If it fails to comply, it will (…)
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Russia – Call for more effort, more vigilance five years after Politkovskaya murder
The failure to solve Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Политковская)’s murder in the five years since her death casts a long shadow that threatens all those who fight for a fairer Russia and an end to violence in the Caucasus. There have been encouraging developments in the investigation of late but the hardest part, identifying the masterminds, still remains. It will require a great deal of courage on part of the police and judicial authorities. A reporter for the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta (…)
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Ucraina, Arresto Yulia Timoshenko: UE in disaccordo con il governo ucraino
L’ex premier Yulia Timoshenko (in foto) si trova in carcere dal 5 agosto scorso per aver protestato “con troppa veemenza” contro la Corte in relazione al contratto per la fornitura di gas alla Russia, firmato nel 2009, senza l’autorizzazione del governo. Van Rompuy si è espresso nell’ambito del summit sul Partenariato orientale, un vertice fra i [...]
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Europa, Droga: Russia riunisce cinque paesi contro il traffico illecito
La Russia ha lanciato una iniziativa per la creazione di una rete di cinque Paesi per lottare contro il traffico di droga nei Balcani, di cui il Kosovo e’ una delle centrali. Come ha detto ai giornalisti a Belgrado Vladimir Ivanov, direttore del Servizio federale russo per il controllo sulle droghe, di tale rete antidroga [...]
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Europa, Antidroga: Accordo tra Serbia e Russia
La Serbia ha firmato un accordo di cooperazione nella lotta contro il traffico di stupefacenti, a Belgrado, con la Russia. L’intesa, siglata dal ministro dell’interno serbo, Ivica Dacic, e dal direttore del Servizio federale russo per il controllo sulle droghe Vladimir Ivanov, mira a contrastare in particolare i traffici di stupefacenti che corrono lungo la [...]
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Russia – Retired police officer arrested on suspicion of organizing Politkovskaya murder
Reporters Without Borders is delighted to learn that the Russian authorities yesterday arrested a retired Moscow police officer on suspicion of organizing the 2005 murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya in return for money. “This is a major step that is long overdue,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We are pleased that after four years of foot-dragging there now seems to be a real determination to press ahead with the investigation. Tribute must be paid to the persistence of (…)
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Russia – Two seizures of newspaper issues by regional governments in past month
Reporters Without Borders condemns last week’s seizure of all 40,000 copies of Izvestia Kaliningrada, a weekly published in Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad. It was the latest example of regional governors abusing their power to silence media that annoy them. “We are disturbed to see this form of censorship used more than once in a short space of time,” Reporters Without Borders said. “By confiscating newspaper issues, local authorities are deliberately suppressing content they find (…)
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Russia – Harassment, prosecutions, convictions – the daily lot of Russian bloggers
Reporters Without Borders condemns all the different kinds of harassment – judicial and otherwise – that the Russian authorities use in a bid to put bloggers on the defensive and to intimidate those who dare to speak their mind, under the pretext of fight against extremism and anti-Semitism The Federal Security Service (FSB) asked the well-known blogger Leonid Kaganov, through his hosting company, to remove an anti-Semitic poem that he had mocked. Kaganov complied, but replaced the original (…)
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Russia – Guardian reporter allowed to return
Luke Harding, correspondent of the British daily The Guardian who was deported from Russia on 5 February, returned to his job in Moscow on 12 February after being issued a new visa by the government. But the paper said today its expiry date was not indicated and that he could be forced to leave the country again on 31 May, the date his old visa expires. The Russian authorities said he had been expelled because of bureaucratic violations. It was the first time a Western journalist had been (…)
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Russia – Guardian correspondent’s expulsion seen as warning to all foreign reporters
Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by Russia’s expulsion of Luke Harding, The Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, regarding it as an explicit and unacceptable warning to all foreign correspondents based in the country. Harding was denied entry on his return to Moscow on 5 February after a visit to the United Kingdom, and was put on a flight back to London. “This is a heavy-handed attempt to get journalists to censor themselves and to prevent impartial coverage of what is happening in (…)
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Russia – Neo-Nazi husband and wife go on trial for double murder of lawyer and journalist
The trial of two people accused of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, a human rights lawyer specialised in Chechnya, and Novaya Gazeta reporter Anastasia Baburova finally began this week in Moscow, nearly two years after they were gunned in the centre of Moscow on 19 January 2009 at the end of news conference by Markelov. Reporters Without Borders welcomes the fact that the judicial authorities are working to solve this murder but points out that there are various reasons for thinking that (…)
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Corea del Nord, Metamfetamine: in aumento l’uso
La metanfetanima viene esportata in crescenti quantita’ dalla Corea del Nord in Cina e in Russia, secondo un’ inchiesta dell’emittente Radio Free Asia (Rfa). Inoltre, avrebbe creato un vasto numero di consumatori nella stessa Corea del Nord tanto da spingere Kim Jong-un, figlio e delfino del leader supremo Kim Jong-il, a inviare decine di agenti [...]
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Russia – Journalist Mikhael Beketov finally has sentence quashed
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the decision of a court in Khimki today, quashing a guilty verdict handed down a month ago against journalist Mikhail Beketov for defamation. The worldwide press freedom organisation said the decision cleared and rehabilitated the managing editor of Khimkiskaïa Pravda (Truth of Khimki). The organisation pointed out that Beketov was sentenced to pay a fine of 5,000 roubles (116 euros) after being wrongly convicted of defamation when he was himself the (…)
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Russia – Repugnant conviction of prominent weekly The New Times
Reporters Without Borders today condemned as “repugnant” a defamation conviction handed down by a Moscow court to the independent weekly The New Times for a report into police corruption and abuse. The verdict, obtained through false testimony, nullified the newspaper’s solid, truthful investigation headlined “OMON slaves” – in reference to the OMON riot police – published in February this year, the worldwide press freedom organisation said, calling for it to be acquitted. The New Times was (…)
