Speaker of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin asked in a persistent form from the Kyiv authorities to investigate the death of workers VGTRK and punish the perpetrators, deputies at the plenary meeting on Wednesday paid tribute to the memory of the victims of correspondents minute of silence.
" We demand from the Kiev authorities thorough investigation of the circumstances of their death and criminal recompense the guilty ", Naryshkin said, opening the plenary meeting on Wednesday.
He said that on behalf of all the people's representatives expresses condolences to families and friends, colleagues of the killed journalists. Naryshkin asked the deputies to honor the memory of victims by a minute of silence." Igor Korneluk and Anton Voloshin honestly performed your duty, the duty of correspondents and duties of citizens ", - said the speaker of the state Duma.
according to Him, in support of today need all of the reporters who tell the truth about events and developments in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
the journalist of " Vesti " Igor Korneluk died on Tuesday from the received damages under mortar fire near the city of Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine. His colleague, engineer Anton Voloshin had been missing. On Tuesday evening a letter confirming the death Voloshin appeared on the Internet representative office of " Vesti ". The operator Viktor Denisov, who was not injured in the shelling, identified in a morgue body Voloshin.
the VGTRK journalist Igor Korneluk shortly before the shelling of Lugansk, which received a fatal wound, made, in which he reported about that to the city nominated tanks, armored vehicles and heavy armament. He also said that the shelling of the area " Metalist ", where the position of Lugansk militia of the people's Republic lasted all night, and was already starting irregular supply of products and medicines and medical equipment. Read more in
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