Part of the Ukrainian participants of the OSCE conference on security of reporters and freedom of the media tried to disrupt the activities held in the Public chamber of the Russian Federation round table in Vienna, which became one of the activities in the framework of the conference outside of the official program.

International conference "Safety of journalists, freedom of expression and pluralism in times of conflict" held in Vienna on 15-16 June. Just the conference was attended by over 250 people from 57 member States of the OSCE, Among them reporters from Russia, Ukraine and the Balkans.

Before the beginning of the roundtable, one participant began to distribute leaflets. When participating members of Public chamber of the Russian Federation began to articulate their vision of the Ukrainian conflict and the situation with the propaganda around it, some of those present began to shout from the audience, accusing the Russian Federation in the aggression in Ukraine. Part of the commissioners protesting Ukraine later left the room.

in the process of the round table discussed the obstacles of Russian correspondents in the Donbas, Ukrainian authorities deny the attacks on civilians. Grigoriev showed a video of interviews with residents of Donbass, who testified about the torture from the soldiers of the Ukrainian army and footage shelled in Shirokino.

in the process of the round table was shown on a screen of the work conducted by the Agency "Russia today", under the auspices of the Russian national Commission for UNESCO photo contest memory of the deceased in Ukraine correspondent of the Agency of Andrei Stenin.

Discussion among participants of the conference with the Russian and Ukrainian sides proceeded on the sidelines of the conference.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as Among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

in 2014 in the South-East of Ukraine lost his life four Russian journalist: correspondent of the Agency "Russia today" Andrei Stenin, Workers VGTRK Igor Korneluk and Anton Voloshin, the operator First channel Anatoly Klyan. Among the dead in Ukraine correspondents, in addition to 4 citizens of Russia, one from Italy and one from Ukraine. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation asked in a persistent form from Kiev to meticulously investigate the death of Russian reporters.

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