freedom of press in Russia
Olga Meerson
meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU
Fri Jun 13 13:11:48 UTC 2008
All is correct except the sixties very much happened in Russia. Russians' true freeds of speech still feeds off the remnants of their table.
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From: John Dunn <J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:08 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] freedom of press in Russia
> I think, with respect, that it may be going a little far to say
> that the governemt effectively shut down The Exile. I don't
> imagine that we will ever know if that was the ultimate aim of the
> exercise and whether the main target of the ????? [naezd] was
> Limonov, in which case The Exile was, so to speak, collateral
> damage, or the publication itself.
>
> It would seem that Mr Ames and his colleagues have, to say the
> least, been naive. They appear to have misinterpreted the climate
> of the 1990s as ushering in an era of ????????????????
> [vsedozvolennost'] and not to have realised that ?????? [èpatazh]
> is a dangerous weapon to use, especially in someone else's country
> and especially somewhere where the 1960s never happened. It is on
> thing to subvert established norms of public behaviour and
> communication if your name is V.V. Zhirinovskii and you have
> backers in the right places, but another if you are foreign
> journalists.
> In this context I would agree that the question whether Russia
> should have the same standards of freedom of speech as America (or
> Britain or Italy – we all know that there things that can be said
> in any one of these countries that cannot be said in the other two)
> is not the point. What can be argued, though, is that laws
> limiting fredom of speech should be written with clarity and
> precision and applied with consistency, and that is the issue with
> the law on extremism. It may also be a matter of concern that the
> regulatory body on whose behalf the visitation was carried out is
> part of the government appartus, which is not normally the case in
> Western Europe.
>
> We will presumably never know if this incident was inspired from on
> high, though I would prefer to think that those whose job it is to
> rule Russia had better things to do with their time than search
> through scurrilous publications in foreign languages. But if by
> any chance it was, then the point is not whether Medvedev is more
> or less 'liberal' than Putin, but that the current President of
> Russia is, unlike his predecessor apparently, an avid user of the
> Internet.
> John Dunn.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Leidy <leidy at STANFORD.EDU>
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:12:56 -0700
> Subject: [SEELANGS] freedom of press in Russia
>
> Dear SEELANG-ers,
> For those who haven't heard, the Russian government effectively
> shut
> down "The Exile," an English-language publication that has been a
> fixture in Moscow for over 10 years. This is perhaps an
> inauspicious
> sign for those who were hoping for a "liberalizing" Medvedev.
>
> The paper's editor-in-chief, Mark Ames, has written a couple of
> blog
> articles on how the process occurred, for those interested:
> http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/06/russian-government-press-
> feedom-putin-ames-medvedev.php
> http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/06/the-end-of-the-exile.php
>
> There will also be an article tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal
> about
> the closure.
>
> bill leidy
>
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