Victoria Ivanova. Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed Condolences in connection with death in Ukraine photographer MIA " Russia today " Andrew Stenina.
" I'm sorry because of the death of journalist Andrei Stenina, which was forcibly deprived of his life while performing his professional duty. It is necessary that the circumstances of his death were investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice, " said the handling Side, received the order Last news .
The Director-General also called on all parties to the conflict in Ukraine to recognize the civilian status of reporters, in order to properly provide for their security.
On the morning of 3 September, the CEO of MIA " today Russia " Dmitry Kiselev announced referring to the expertise of the Investigative Department that Stenin about a month ago, died in the district of Donetsk. The car in which he was riding on an editorial assignment, was shot and burned on the highway. According to the information of the IC, the reporter was forcibly deprived of his life in the process of Ukrainian military attack on the convoy of immigrants, which was guarded by a few militia.
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation asked in a persistent form from Kiev to thoroughly investigate the death of Stenina is already the 4th Russian journalist who was killed in the East of Ukraine in recent months. Condolences on the death of Stenina was expressed by the head of the Prime Minister and other Russian politicians. With his own hand the Ukrainian Council of national security and defense said about the non-involvement of security forces to the incident, and the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine and even suggested that Stenina forcibly deprived of life militias.
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