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Parlamentskaya Gazeta editor ‘resigns’

Posted: June 28th, 2006 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: liberty, media, politics, russia |

More evidence of a Duma crackdown on the free press?

Last week, speaker of the Federation Council upper house, Sergei Mironov demanded that the editor-in-chief of Parlamentskaya Gazeta be fired. On June 22, which is marked as Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Russia, the newspaper carried an article titled “Lokotskaya Alternative” which justified actions by accomplices of the Nazis in the territory of the Bryansk region during World War II.

Calling the fact of the publication “ignominious and mean,” Mironov said he had suggested to Gryzlov that the editor-in-chief be fired. The upper house backed their speaker.

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One Comment on “Parlamentskaya Gazeta editor ‘resigns’”

  1. 1 Jose said at 7:47 pm on June 30th, 2006:

    How many nuts are still there supporting Nazism? Unfortunately numbers are growing and the worst part of it is that Israelis are giving them bones to chew.