" Russia today " demanded the release of arrested in Ukraine correspondent
MIA " Russia today " requires prompt release of his freelance photographer and stringer French Agency AFP Maxim Vasilenko, and journalist edition " Crimean Telegraph Eugenia Queen, captured in Donetsk oblast Ukrainian insurgents " Right sector ". About This said the chief editor of " Russia today " Margarita Simonyan.
" This is not the 1st case of gross violation of freedom of speech in Ukraine. Until now the authorities of that state are silent About the life of our photographer Andrew Stenina. Against such oppression of the rights of correspondents Kyiv authorities many times acted as Commissioners of the OSCE, and international journalism organizations. We demand immediate release captured Russian correspondents, and among them our freelance photojournalist who do their own professional duty, " said Simonyan.
first it was claimed that at some of the checkpoints in Donetsk oblast fighters " Right sector " were caught correspondents publications " Crimean Telegraph photographer Maxim Vasilenko and journalist Evgeny Korolev. Vasilenko also a freelance MIA " Russia today "in addition, he is working on the AFP news Agency.
by her expression, " his work for international agencies Russia today and France-Presse Maxim Vasilenko was presented to the world community objective picture of what is happening in Ukraine ".
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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