Debts: Kyiv obliged to immediately release the journalist of " Stars "
The Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov says that violations of freedom of speech and media in Ukraine should be stepped personal responsibility.
" Kyiv authorities must immediately release correspondents " Stars ". Need to stop illegal seizures of Russian correspondents. For these gross violations of freedom of expression and the media should occur personal responsibility, " he wrote.
in his vision, the international community must put pressure on Kiev for the soonest release of the correspondents of " Zvezda " channel." Will continue to use all diplomatic channels, including the OSCE, to the Journalists of " Stars " rather returned Home unharmed ", - he added.
on the first day weekend the Russian foreign Ministry condemned the actions of the Ukrainian authorities regarding correspondents, most of authorized mass media from Russia. Moscow has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the detention of the correspondents of " Stars " and called on Kiev to stop illegal actions against the Russian and foreign journalistic groups. According to the foreign Ministry, to search and release of journalists of the TV channel " Zvezda " has connected the residence of the Russian Ambassador in Kiev.
The Russian Ambassador in Kiev Mikhail Zurabov said that the note of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with the detention of correspondents has already been prepared. In addition, the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu gave the order to take all legitimate measures to release correspondents. TV guide also filed a petition to release the seized correspondents to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. , overseen by the Ministry of defence, disappeared after a search, conducted by the national guard under Ukraine on the way to Slavyansk. The operator Andrey Susenkov and sound engineer Anton Malyshev, travelling under Slavonic, ceased to contact on the last working day of the week day. Correspondents were going to cover the inauguration of Peter Poroshenko. They tied on suspicion of monitoring checkpoint security forces and the collection of information about him. Authorized media transferred to the SBU.