Gazprom completes NTV takeover
April 3, 2001, New York – Russia’s state-dominated gas monopoly Gazprom used a shareholders meeting today to take formal control of the independent Russian television network, NTV. The new management removed NTV founder Vladimir Gusinsky and managing director Yevgeny Kiselyov from the station’s board of directors
CPJ meets with Gazprom Media chief
New York, March 6, 2001 — Alfred R. Kokh, general director of Russia’s Gazprom Media, visited the New York offices of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today to assert that his company’s long-running dispute with Vladimir Gusinsky’s NTV television network was purely a business matter. In the course of a two-hour meeting, CPJ executive…
Russia: Journalist’s killers sought to intimidate his newspaper, CPJ research finds
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wishes to inform you that after a thorough investigation into the murder of Igor Domnikov, a reporter for the independent, twice-weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, we have concluded that Domnikov was targeted by assassins who sought to intimidate his paper.
24 JOURNALISTS KILLED FOR THEIR WORK IN 2000 Highest Tolls in Colombia, Russia, and Sierra Leone
New York, January 4, 2001 — Of the 24 journalists killed for their work in 2000, according to CPJ research, at least 16 were murdered, most of those in countries where assassins have learned they can kill journalists with impunity. This figure is down from 1999, when CPJ found that 34 journalists were killed for…
Babitsky Convicted and Immediately Amnestied
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in RUSSIA New York, October 6, 2000–A local court in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, convicted radio reporter Andrei Babitsky of using false documents and sentenced him to pay a fine 13,200 rubles (about US$475), according to international and local media reports.
Yugoslavia: Growing Unrest in the State Media
October 5, 2000 — Since this briefing was filed two days ago, Slobodan Milosevic has almost entirely lost control of state media, a main pillar of his power. Today, the state news agency Tanjug declared its independence from Milosevic and referred to opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica as the president-elect of Yugoslavia. Employees of the state…
Yugoslavia: Growing Unrest in the State Media
October 5, 2000 — Since this briefing was filed two days ago, Slobodan Milosevic has almost entirely lost control of state media, a main pillar of his power. Today, the state news agency Tanjug declared its independence from Milosevic and referred to opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica as the president-elect of Yugoslavia. Employees of the state…
Verdict in Babitsky Case Expected TomorrowCPJ Calls For Unconditional Acquittal
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in RUSSIA New York, October 5, 2000 — A verdict is expected tomorrow in the four-day long trial of Russian radio journalist Andrei Babitsky, according to local and international reports. Babitsky, a veteran correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Russian Service, is charged with carrying a…