Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it will not renew permission for ABC-TV to operate in the country after the network broadcast an interview with a notorious Chechen warlord…
… The
ministry called the broadcast a “clear fact supporting the propaganda
of terrorism” and said it contained “direct vocal calls for violence
against Russian citizens.”
In the interview conducted by
Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky, Basayev, who has a $10 million
bounty on his head, said he was plotting more attacks.
Among
other attacks, Basayev has been linked to a 2002 hostage-taking assault
on a Moscow theater that left 170 people dead, a 2003 suicide attack in
the Moscow subway that killed 41 people, and a 2003 double suicide
bombing at a Moscow rock concert that killed 17 people.
On
Sunday, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was barring military
personnel from contact with ABC and said the ministry now considered
the network “persona non grata.”
Source: AP via YAHOO news
Hm
… Autocratic Russian regime showing what they think of Freedom of
Press? But wait … what would we think if a
friendly foreign Media Agency broadcasted an interview with
Osama? Ohh, I can’t wait for the huge debate about to start soon…
Update: What a coincidence (nothing more implied) that ABC gets
kicked out of Russia, and News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) buys into Russian TV
broadcasting.
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