The Federation Council will appeal to UNESCO in connection with the rights infractions correspondents in Ukraine
The Council of Federation at the meeting on Wednesday wishes to join UNESCO in connection with the ongoing repression " from the Ukrainian authorities concerning the Russian correspondents.
Senators demand to denounce the arbitrariness of the Ukrainian authorities and to draw the attention of the international organization of correspondents on the numerous facts of violations of rights of media workers in Ukraine.
" Political censorship established the ruling regime in Ukraine grew into the terror relative to foreign correspondents. Steel trend violent seizure of correspondents, their torture and murder ", - stated in the project document.
A glaring example was the assassination on June 17 members of the crew VGTRK journalist Igor Igor's and engineer Anton Voloshin, who lost their lives as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian military under Lugansk, pay attention to the deputies.
" Politicians who came to power in Ukraine in the result of an armed coup have a panic fear of media workers and ready to do anything to obstruct the media, whose position does not coincide with the opinion of the Ukrainian leadership ", - is said in the appeal.