- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

European Institutions Must Protect Media Freedom in Ukraine: Moscow

© Sputnik / Valery Melnikov / Go to the mediabankRussian Foreign Ministry
Russian Foreign Ministry - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Russia expects that human rights structures and organizations, including the OSCE and the Council of Europe, will provide an unbiased assessment to systematic violations of journalists’ rights in Ukraine, according to the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

British journalist Graham Phillips, who has worked for a Russian TV-channel, was wounded by a shell fragment on Monday and is currently in a Donetsk hospital. - Sputnik International
Russia
Russian Union of Journalists Preparing Study on Reporters Rights in Ukraine
MOSCOW, November 28 (Sputnik) – Leading European human rights institutions and organizations should react to the systematic violations of media freedom in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The ministry said in a statement that some Russian journalists were denied entry to the country, while others were physically attacked.

"We expect that relevant human rights structures and organizations, including the OSCE and the Council of Europe, will provide an unbiased assessment to systematic violations of journalists' rights in Ukraine," the ministry said.

VGRTK correspondent Kornelyuk dies in Lugansk - Sputnik International
Russian Reporters Deaths in Ukraine Need Investigation: EJF
The ministry expressed concern over intolerance on the part of some Ukrainian officials against those media that have an alternative stance on the events unfolding in the country.

Dozens of Russian journalists have already been denied entry to Ukraine and currently Kiev is also mulling a nationwide ban on Russian TV channels, the statement added.

According to the latest OSCE report on media freedom developments, since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict 7 journalists have been killed, at least 170 have been attacked and about 80 have been abducted and detained in the region.

 

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала