The Belarusian Association of Journalists is alarmed over the troublesome situation with the Russian TV-6 channel. The channel’s broadcasting was halted on January 22 upon the order of the Russian Minister for press Mikhail Lesin “for the protection of citizens’ rights to receive information and for the effective use of the frequency”.
“TV-6 shutdown is to be placed in one row with the arbitrary replacement of NTV leadership in spring 2001, closure of the newspaper “Segodnya”, imprisonment of the journalist Grygory Pasko, - reads the statement of BAJ: The situation development around mass media in Russia brings to memory numerous parallels with the situation in Belarus, where the confrontation between the authorities and mass media has been lasting for eight years.” The Belarusian Association of Journalists “protests against the infringement on the freedom of speech in Russia, expressing solidarity with the journalists, whose right for information dissemination and free expression had been violated.”
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