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IWPR: Abkhaz Media Fear Free Speech Under Threat

posted by eagle on October, 2009 as Freedom and Fear

Abkhaz Media Fear Free Speech Under Threat


25-Sep-09

Journalist’s conviction viewed as a warning to critics ahead of presidential elections.

By Anaid Gogoryan in Sukhum (CRS No. 512, 25-Sep-09)

The conviction of a journalist for libelling Abkhazia’s president, Sergei Bagapsh, has raised concerns for the future of media freedom in the republic.

Abkhazia, recognised as independent by Russia, Nicaragua and Venezuela but otherwise considered part of Georgia, holds presidential elections in December. Observers fear the prosecution may be intended as a warning to potentially critical correspondents ahead of the polls.

On September 21, the Sukhum city court gave Anton Krivenyuk a three-year suspended sentence - the maximum possible term - for an article criticising the president’s decision to hand over the railway network to Russian control. Originally published on a Russian internet site on June 8, it was widely reprinted in Abkhazian papers.

It was the first criminal case brought against a journalist in Abkhazia’s post-Soviet history, ...
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Maidan: GQ Removes Article About Putin And Apartment Bombings From Its Russian Version

posted by eagle on September, 2009 as Freedom and Fear

GQ removes article about Putin and apartment bombings from its Russian version

 Sun Sep 13 2009

The article "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power," by Scott Anderson, published in the American version of the magazine GQ, has been removed from the Russian version of the publication. The article investigates the terrorist acts in Russia at the end of the 1990s and is based on an interview with the former political prisoner and lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, who once worked for the Federal Security Service [FSB] about the bombing of apartments in Moscow and Buynaksk.
On 23 July one of the top lawyers for the journal Jerry Berens sent the media holding a letter instructing the editors to not circulate the September issue of GQ with the article "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power," in Russia, to not publish the article on the magazine website, and to not send copies of GQ to Russia or ...


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The Other Russia: Russian Journalist Who Investigated Hydro Plant Explosion Attacked

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Russian Journalist Who Investigated Hydro Plant Explosion Attacked

September 9th, 2009

An independent Russian journalist who asked questions after the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam disasterhas been attacked in the city of Abakan. Mikhail Afanasyev, who works as the editor-in-chief of the Novy Fokus internet newspaper, related the news himself to the Kasparov.ru online newspaper on September 9th.

Afanasyev said two unknown assailants ran up to him in a schoolyard near his home, hitting him in the head. One of them asked the other “is that him?” and when the second attacker said “yes,” both men pounded him repeatedly until he lost consciousness. The journalists connected the attack with his professional work. According to the Gazeta.ru online newspaper, he did not seek medical attention after the assault.

The editor came to prominence in the days after the deadly disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant, which killed over 70 workers. On behalf of the victims’ families, Afanasyev publicly questioned ...


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Guardian: Condé Nast Accused Of Journalistic Cowardice Over Anti-Putin Article

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Condé Nast accused of journalistic cowardice over anti-Putin article


Publishing house printed piece in US edition of GQ but withheld it from Russian edition and internet. By Luke Harding


Luke Harding in Moscow

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 September 2009 16.40 BST


The publishing house Condé Nast is embroiled in a row over censorship after it allegedly prevented the publication inside Russia of an article deeply critical of Vladimir Putin, which appeared in the US edition of GQ.


The acclaimed war reporter Scott Anderson wrote the piece for the September edition of the magazine. It casts doubt on the official Russian version of events following a series of devastating apartment bombings in Moscow in 1999, in which hundreds of people were killed.


The article's key claim – that Russia's security services were behind the attacks, rather than Chechen terrorists – has been made on many ...


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Window On Eurasia: Russian Internet Journalist Charged With Slander For Going Beyond Official Reports

posted by eagle on August, 2009 as Freedom and Fear

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009

Window on Eurasia: Russian Internet Journalist Charged with Slander for Going beyond Official Reports

Paul Goble

Vienna, August 20 – Mikhail Afanasyev,editor of the Internet Journal “Novy focus,” has been charged with slander for distributing “intentionally false reports” about the Sayano-Shushen Dam disaster when prosecutors in the Khakass Republic say he was in full possession of “reliable and official information.”
The filing of these charges less than 24 hours after Afanasyev suggested on his site that officials were shifting their efforts too quickly from the search for survivors to the recovery of bodies demonstrate that Russian officials can move quickly when they want to control reporting about any event.
But they also call attention to a disturbing phenomenon, the increasing propensity of Russian law enforcement to draw on the legal norms of the Soviet past when the criminal code included provisions for bringing charges against anyone making “intentionally false slanderous declarations, ...

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