Groups Worry About Russia's Press Freedom
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The detention of several journalists traveling to and from the deadly school siege in Russia is raising new concern about press freedom in the country, media watchdogs said Tuesday.
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Free and open debate has become a rarity in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or business moguls.
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MOSCOW : Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet president Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.
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Russia's first post-Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin's decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.
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KRASNOYASK, Russia  - Russia's  president-in-waiting Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday media  freedoms are guaranteed in Russia -- by the Internet.
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Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the media could not just be passive observers in the face of terrorist threats and called on journalists to use their work to advance the anti-terrorist cause.
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A U.S.-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and civil liberties across the world said Monday that Russia had fallen to the status of "not free" &#151; far behind the democratic nations Moscow sees as its peers.
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As political battles heat up, the Kremlin is accused of crippling the websites of opposition parties, as well as media outlets.
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The Kremlin is tired of Western criticisms Â that Russia is becoming more authoritarian, human rights are violated, journalists are at risk and elections are rigged.
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Russian newspapers question the government's ability to tackle terrorism, while in France, there is hope two kidnapped journalists could soon be freed.
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Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Russian papers take a cynical view of US criticisms of President Putin's planned security reforms.
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Ivan Y. Pavlov leads a quiet but dangerous campaign in Russia: legal battles for what he calls, simply, âthe right to know.â
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HELSINKI, Jul 16 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners in Russia and Finland fear  that denial of rights will continue beyond the term of President  Vladimir Putin, who is expected to step down in March next year.
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday blasted China's efforts to further control the distribution of news and financial information by foreign news agencies, saying revised regulations showed that the government was tightening censorship.
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MOSCOW, Sep 25 (IPS) - A year after elections, little promise is in sight  for the development of free and independent media in the  autonomous republic of Chechnya.