Russian Journalist Asks Ukraine to Grant Him Political Asylum
posted by zaina19 on February, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/7/2007 3:32 AM Russian Journalist Asks Ukraine to Grant Him Political Asylum 06.02.07 Russian Russian journalist Aleksandr Kosvintsev of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has asked for political asylum in Ukraine, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Tuesday quoting the press service of the legislature of the Ukrainian Lviv Region. The press service referred to the journalist, who is staying in Lviv at present. Kosvintsev has applied to the regional department of the Ukrainian migration service in Lviv. The Russian journalist told the press service he was forced to leave Russia due to persecution by Russia’s law enforcement bodies. Novaya Gazeta daily, partially owned by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, is strongly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policies, especially of the anti-terror campaign in Chechnya. Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya worked in this newspaper until her assassination on October 7, 2006. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/06/asylum.shtml
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