With regard to pressure from Russian authorities to the editor of the independent Moscow magazine «The New Times»

The International Committee of the protection of press freedom and journalists’ rights is concerned the continuing pressure from Russian authorities to the editor of the independent Moscow magazine «The New Times» in connection with the published there in February this year of inappropriate material status of the units of the Russian special police.

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About the subversive anti-state activities

The Committee of citizens of Ukraine expresses its concern about government’s action plan for instructions from Moscow to unify the Ukrainian history textbooks with pleasing the Kremlin ideology of chauvinism and Russian imperialism, the obvious strategic goal of which is the complete and final destruction of Ukrainian statehood and a tail to discredit the many heroes of Ukrainian national liberation struggle by a continuous and total falsification of history by Russian security services.

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About the political repression against dissidents on the Internet

The International Committee of the protection of press freedom and journalists’ rights is extremely concerned by the fact that shortly after the purchase of Russian-speaking segment of the Russian businessmen popular blog service livejournal.com a dramatic escalation of blocking access to this service for clients of the service, who hold political views, unwanted Russian government.

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About the dismissal of Anastasia Izyumskaya with “the Russian news service”

The International Committee of the protection of press freedom and journalists’ rights, see the statements of Russian journalist Anastasia Izyumskaya about her dismissal from the “Russian news service”, which is published in today’s issue of “Novaya Gazeta”, said that the facts set out there is clearly evidence of very heavy situation prevailing in Russia today with respect to press freedom.

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About the riots in Estonia

International Committee of the protection of freedom and civil society expresses its concern at the prevailing these days in Estonia riots. International Committee for the Protection of freedom and civil society causes of these events finds systematic efforts by the Russian secret services, who for many years were deliberately aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Baltic countries, formerly part of the Soviet Union. As a tool to incite tension totalitarian revenge-seekers who do not wish to accept the loss of the Baltic territories, using a variety of legal organizations of Russian-speaking minority, funded and led by the due eastern border.

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