Freedom and Fear

Top Official in Russia's Itar-Tass News Agency Killed
By VOA News
16 October 2006
    

The business chief of the Russian state news agency Itar-Tass has been stabbed to death in his central Moscow apartment.

Authorities say 55-year-old Anatoli Voronin died of multiple knife wounds. Reuters news agency quotes prosecutors as saying police are looking at several possible murder scenarios, including a theory the killing may be linked to a personal dispute rather that his work.

Flowers at the Moscow building where Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed

Flowers at the Moscow building where Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-16-voa61.cfm
The death is the latest in a spate of high-profile killings in Moscow in the past month. Acclaimed journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot and killed in an apparent contract murder October 7. There have been no arrests.

Deputy Central Bank governor and anti-corruption advocate Andrei Kozolov and his driver were shot dead in Moscow on September 13.

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Top Official in Russia's Itar-Tass News Agency Killed
By VOA News
16 October 2006
    

The business chief of the Russian state news agency Itar-Tass has been stabbed to death in his central Moscow apartment.

Authorities say 55-year-old Anatoli Voronin died of multiple knife wounds. Reuters news agency quotes prosecutors as saying police are looking at several possible murder scenarios, including a theory the killing may be linked to a personal dispute rather that his work.

Flowers at the Moscow building where Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed

Flowers at the Moscow building where Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-16-voa61.cfm
The death is the latest in a spate of high-profile killings in Moscow in the past month. Acclaimed journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot and killed in an apparent contract murder October 7. There have been no arrests.

Deputy Central Bank governor and anti-corruption advocate Andrei Kozolov and his driver were shot dead in Moscow on September 13.

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Making Sure Everything Looks Nice
By Nabi Abdullaev
Staff Writer
    
Natalya Krainova / Itar-Tass
Residents of Kaspiisk taking part in a live television call-in program with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

"After the words 'his citizens' -- uproarious applause.

"After the words 'Ask a question to the president of Russia' -- hands should go up.

"First question -- from a veteran. Then -- from the plant."

These were just some of the instructions doled out to Irina Yashina shortly before watching President Vladimir Putin in a live, televised Q&A session Wednesday.

Yashina, an editor at the Zavodskaya Pravda newspaper, run by the Dagdizel heavy machinery plant in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, was assigned the "plant" question.

The question, as it turned out, was a plea for the president to press the Defense Ministry to order more torpedoes and other military hardware made in Kaspiysk.

The city in the North Caucasus was one of 10 locales specially selected for television uplinks during the ...
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Yuri Bagrov / Photo from www.region15.ru

Yuri Bagrov / Photo from www.region15.ru
Radio Liberty Journalist Detained in Beslan

Created: 01.09.2005 15:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:13 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1125573220)); </SCRIPT> , 23 hours 26 minutes ago

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Radio Liberty journalist Yuri Bagrov has been detained in <NOBR>Beslan</NOBR>, North Ossetian Interior Ministry spokesman Ismel Shaov told Interfax.

The journalist was detained for not having a press accreditation card.

He has applied for one, but the authorities refused to issue a local card explaining that Bagrov did not have the accreditation from the Russian Foreign Ministry that is needed for those working for foreign media, RIA Novosti explains.

Before the Beslan commemoration ceremonies the authorities in North Ossetia said that all journalists working there on Sept. 1-3, had to acquire accreditation. A local interior ministry spokesman stressed that it was possible for all journalists to get accredited and that those that did not would be detained.

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Sep 1 2005 4:10PM
Radio Liberty's Bagrov released from police station

BESLAN. Sept 1 (Interfax) - Radio Liberty journalist Yury Bagrov, who was detained in Beslan on Thursday morning, has been released from police custody.

"He will pay a fine in accordance with administrative protocol," head of the North Ossetian Interior Ministry's press service Ismel Shaov told Interfax.

He did not say exactly how much the journalist will have to pay. A regular fine is from 500 to 2,500 rubles.

Bagrov was detained for lacking an accreditation card. His only identification document was a driving license.

"He has not held a Russian passport for a year, and this is a flagrant violation of the passport and visa rules," Shaov said.

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11370493