CIS: Press Freedom In Former Soviet Union Under Assault
By Christopher Walker
Belarus -- Anatol Lyabedzka (with seized copies of Narodnaya volya) Independent newspapers in Belarus have struggled to get printed, let alone distributed RFE/RL Independent media in the countries of the former Soviet Union, already operating under extreme duress, came under further assault over the course of the last year. The political, legal, and economic environments in most of the non-Baltic former Soviet countries remain distinctly inhospitable to independent journalism.
This reality is reflected in "Freedom Of The Press 2006," the latest edition of Freedom House's annual global survey of media independence. Ten of the 12 Soviet countries are ranked "Not Free" in the new edition of the survey. Of the 10 Not Free countries, five saw a further erosion in their performance over the course of last year.
Of the 12 non-Baltic former Soviet states only Georgia and Ukraine, which are categorized ... >>full
IА REGNUM correspondent’s father severely beaten in KCR 11.5.2006
On May 11th about 8 o'clock in the morning in the capital of Karachaevo-Circassia Cherkessk in a courtyard of the house some unknown persons beat Gukemuhov Muhamed Abubakarovich - father of IА REGNUM correspondent Murat Gukemuhov. Presumably the attackers stroke the victim with a baseball bat. Muhamed Abubakarovich is hospitalized with crisis of temporal bone and break of eye surface.
As Murat Gukemuhov told IА REGNUM edition, on the eve in the evening unknown person called to his father and said: "We know each other, I should talk to you, but not by phone. It concerns one publication". The called suggested to meet at 8.00 a.m. in a courtyard of the house where in due time Muhamed Gukemuhov came out and was severely beaten.
IА REGNUM has information that recently Murat Gukemuhov had received some veiled threats, and some "commercial" offers from various ... >>full
AL SALAM 3ALAYKOM, IT HAPPENED On May, 5th, 2006 IN SWEDEN. EUROPE, LIMITED EDITION DEMOCRACY. Imagine if some country shuts down your operation for simply reporting the news, that's what happened to KavkazCenter.com YESTERDAY, THEY HAVE THEIR SERVERS IN EUROPE, THE SAME EUROPE THAT PROTECTED FREEDOM OF SPEECH WHEN THEY published offensive caricatures on Prophet Muhammada ( a.s.s). IT'S A WAR AGAINST US "MUSLIMS"
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN EUROPE IS ONLY FOR NONE MUSLIM EUROPEANS. WWW.KavkazCenter.com NEWS AGENCY IS FACING THE DOUBLE STANDARD TREATMENT. YOU CAN'T REPORT NEWS ABOUT CHECHNYA, IT PROMOTES VIOLENCE, YOU CANT TELL THE NEWS TO THE WORLD. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. GOD HELP US. KavkazCenter.com is temporarily out of order as the Swedish police has executed a search warrant and confiscated the servers. Until it's up on new hardware please visit www.kavkazcenter.net .
IА REGNUM correspondent’s father severely beaten in KCR 11.5.2006
On May 11th about 8 o'clock in the morning in the capital of Karachaevo-Circassia Cherkessk in a courtyard of the house some unknown persons beat Gukemuhov Muhamed Abubakarovich - father of IА REGNUM correspondent Murat Gukemuhov. Presumably the attackers stroke the victim with a baseball bat. Muhamed Abubakarovich is hospitalized with crisis of temporal bone and break of eye surface.
As Murat Gukemuhov told IА REGNUM edition, on the eve in the evening unknown person called to his father and said: "We know each other, I should talk to you, but not by phone. It concerns one publication". The called suggested to meet at 8.00 a.m. in a courtyard of the house where in due time Muhamed Gukemuhov came out and was severely beaten.
IА REGNUM has information that recently Murat Gukemuhov had received some veiled threats, and some "commercial" offers from various ... >>full
The arrest in compliance of the order of the russian embassy
<o:p> </o:p> The arrest in compliance of the order of the russian embassy
In last time it seems to me that all their brave democratic peace went finally mad. Moreover their illness is progressing now not for years but for months.
On 5 May in the midday the Swedish police officers burst into the office of the provider Company and brought away two servers pertaining to the Kavkaz-Center Agency. Later some Roswall who called himself the “International Prosecutor” (may be the Sweden prosecutor for “international relations with the Russian terrorists”?) said to the juridical owner of the confiscated servers Mikhail Sturshe that this police officers brought away the servers in compliance with the order of the Russian Embassy that expressed its discontent with allegedly welcoming and approving successful military operation of the Caucasus Mujahideens against armed-to-the teeth Russian terrorists and invaders in Nalchik. ... >>full
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