Attention! Kavkaz Center will resume its operation on August 3 !!!!
Administration of Kavkaz Center news and information agency announces that the editorial staff will resume its work in full this coming Wednesday August 3, 2005.
Aug 3 2005 2:34PM Babitsky's interview with Basayev breaches law - ministry
MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - Journalist Andrei Babitsky violated both Russian legislation and international law when he interviewed Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Article 20 of the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights says that instigating terrorism is inadmissible," the spokesman said.
Under Russian legislation, Babitsky, who is a Radio Liberty journalist, requires Foreign Ministry accreditation to work as a journalist in Russia, he said.
"If a person plans to interview anybody in the zone of the counter- terrorism operation, he needs accreditation from the Russian Interior Ministry. This agency issues this ID," the spokesman said. "For the whole set of rules for trips to the zone of the counter-terrorism operation, visit the Interior Ministry's website," he said.
Aug 3 2005 12:08PM U.S. not planning restrictions on Russian journalists - embassy
MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - The U.S. government is not planning to take restrictive measures against Russian journalists in response to the Russian Foreign Ministry's decision not to extend the accreditation of journalists from the U.S. TV channel ABC, which recently broadcast an interview with prominent Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the U.S. Embassy in Russia told Interfax on Wednesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that ABC is not welcome to contact any Russian government organization or agency, and that it would not extend ABC journalists' accreditation in Russia upon its expiration.
AFPThree hungry men, one missing his lower legs, might not look dangerous, but these are no ordinary men and they would like to bring down Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government.
After oligarchs, Communists, liberals and pensioners, these three hunger strikers represent Putin’s latest and perhaps least likely opponents: decorated “Heroes” of Russia or the Soviet Union who have resorted to a hunger strike.
Like many other groups, the “Heroes” are infuriated at Putin’s attempt to modernize social benefits by scrapping Soviet-era perks such as the right to free transport and medicine in exchange for limited sums of money that can be spent however the recipient chooses.
Russian Journalist Deported as Enemy of Uzbekistan By Nelli Monastyrskaya The Moscow News The Uzbek ruling authorities forbid the export of information 26.08.05 Friday
Following a recent anti-presidential uprising, Uzbekistan has become a closed, insulated republic. No information about what is going on there is allowed out of the country. Nor are Russian or other foreign journalists, who try to see the situation with their own eyes, allowed into the country. According to the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, from May 13 until July 2005 more than 50 reporters were denied visas or accreditation by the Uzbek Foreign Ministry. A case in point showing that the Uzbek ruling authorities mean business is the deportation of Igor Rotar, a Russian journalist working for the Forum 18 Norwegian organization.
The Russian media linked your detention and subsequent deportation with journalistic investigations into the violation of religious minority rights in Central Asia. Could this have been the ... >>full
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