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2004-09-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
CSM: Russia uses KGB playbook on press
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Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-22 2:02:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Search for Politkovskaya and Babitsky and you'll get details on them -- I'd heard about them a while ago.

http://www.cpj.org/news/2004/Russia03sept04na.html

"According to local press reports, police at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow first detained Babitsky yesterday morning on suspicion of carrying explosives. None were found and he was released. Then two young men approached him and tried to start a fight with him, according to radio station Ekho Moskvy. As a result, airport police detained him again, along with the two men.

Earlier reports said that Babitsky had been detained because he was “a victim of hooliganism,” but he was actually charged with “hooliganism” himself and sentenced to five days in jail today.

...

According to the Moscow-based Web site Grani.Ru, the two young men who approached Babitsky at the airport yesterday asked him to buy them beer, and when he refused, they started harassing him. At that time, airport police detained all three men at the airport police station for disorderly conduct, where they were kept until 5 p.m.

Babitsky said that the two men, who were later identified as airport workers, told him that they were instructed to pick a fight with him, Grani.Ru reported. Babitsky’s lawyer, Vladimir Artemov, has appealed the journalist’s sentence.

The guilty verdict was based entirely on the testimony of the Vnukovo Airport police officers, even though their accounts differed from those of other witnesses of the incident.


and
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/09/03/politkovskaya.shtml

On 1 September, Anna Politkovskaya boarded a plane bound for Beslan, Dmitry Muratov, Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov told the NEWSru.com Web-site. During a stopover in Rostov-on-Don she felt unwell and lost consciousness. Diagnosed with food poisoning, she spent the whole day in the Rostov hospital. Her condition is still grave.

According to NG’s editor, it all sounds very suspicious since Anna claimed she had not eaten anything for the whole day before landing in Rostov-on-Don, apart from a cup of tea she had on board.


In "http://www.guardian
.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1300193,00.html" Politkovskaya herself says:
"All the tests taken at the airport have been destroyed - on orders "from on high", say the doctors. "
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-09-22 9:37:40 AM||   2004-09-22 9:37:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Good enough.

Russia is officially out of control. Way to go, Vlad.
Posted by badanov  2004-09-22 10:09:55 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-09-22 10:09:55 AM|| Front Page Top

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