Leading dissidents from the former Soviet Union have demanded an investigation into the BBC Russian Service, The Daily Telegraph Reports. The probe is to check the accusations that the BBC had caved in to pressure to be less critical of President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
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January 6, 2007Russian top prosecutor’s office has issued an official apology to a man unlawfully charged with murdering an investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was killed in a bomb blast at his newspaper’s office back in 1994, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports.
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December 19, 2006Moscow city hall denied permission to hold a march to commemorate journalists killed in Russia over the past years. The event was to take place next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy reports.
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December 12, 2006Russian authorities have detained Ivan Mironov, the 25-year-old history student, who had been wanted over an assassination attempt on the head of the Unified Energy Systems of Russia joint-stock company, Anatoly Chubais, RIA Novosti news agency reported December 12. Boris Mironov, father of the detainee and former Russian Federation Press Minister has also been detained in Moscow recently.
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British TV broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a television drama about the poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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December 8, 2006CNN International will turn the spotlight on Russia during a week of special programming starting on Monday, December 11.
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December 7, 2006Forbes Russia editor-in-chief said Monday he had withdrawn his resignation after the parties to the last week’s conflict came to term over the December issue. The issue will be printed ’in its original form,’ the magazine’s publisher said Friday, a day after lawsuit threats prompted the destruction of thousands of copies of the magazine and its editor’s resignation.
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December 4, 2006
Although their documents were completely in order, ORF (Austrian public channel) journalist Susanne Scholl and her team have been arrested on the 24th of november in Chechnya.
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November 30, 2006A Russian lawmaker and billionaire industrialist was being treated in a hospital Monday for severe burns suffered when a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in southeastern France over the weekend, police said.
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November 28, 2006Russian TV star Tina Kandelaki denies she was in the car with Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov when he crashed his Ferrari on the Riviera Saturday, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday.
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