BBC Russian Service: Petition to the Prime Minister

[Robert Orr]

Robert

"British citizens" and "UK residents" are not the same thing.

Could you please clarify?

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From: "Robert Chandler" <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:01 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] BBC Russian Service: Petition to the Prime Minister


> Dear all,
>
> Please could ANY BRITISH CITIZENS among you consider signing the following
> petition, created by Sergei Cristo (a former Russian Service producer).
> Please also, if possible, forward the link pasted below to as many British
> friends as possible.
>
> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBCWorldService/
> <http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BBCWorldService/>
>
> This will only take a couple of minutes.  In order to get an official
> response, we need at least 200 signatories.  All of them have to be UK
> residents.  We have a month.
>
> When the French government recently decided to stop their own
> Russian-language broadcasting service, 900 people signed a petition 
> against
> this.  Copies were sent to every deputy in the French parliament, and the
> broadcasts were reprieved!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
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