Such Ukrainian
actions "run counter to international law provisions that regulate work
of representatives of media outlets in a foreign country," the Russian
embassy said
ITAR-TASS / Mikhail PochuevAdd caption
KIEV, May 19. /ITAR-TASS/. Obstruction to professional activity of
Russian journalists in Ukraine by military and law enforcement agencies
has become regular and countrywide. Ukrainian law enforcement agencies
detained and took in an unknown direction journalists of Russian TV
channel LifeNews Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko near the city of
Kramatorsk in southeast Ukraine’s Donetsk region on May 18, the press
service of the Russian Embassy in Kiev said on Monday.
“This is much more than the first detention of Ukrainian law enforcers
by Russian journalists,” the press service noted, adding that “On April
16, representatives of Ukrainian armed forces detained a crew of the
All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and
journalist of Russian TV channel NTV Stepan Chirich was brutally
detained and beaten by representatives of local self-defense force near
the city of Pervomaisk in Dnepropetrovsk Region [southeast Ukraine] on
April 23.”
Such Ukrainian actions “run counter to international law provisions that regulate work of representatives of media outlets in a foreign country, saying nothing about numerous Ukrainian pledges that they impose no restrictions on activity of foreign journalists in the country,” the press service said.
The Russian Embassy insists on an immediate end to such actions. “Arbitrariness and repressions against journalists and media actually an encroachment on the freedom of speech which is one of most fundamental freedoms in the modern world,” the press service said, adding that “Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko should be released immediately.
Source: Itar Tass
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