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Russia: Ingushetia and Free Speech

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 @ 11:16 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Russia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Governance, History, Human Rights, Internet & Telecoms, Law, Media, Protest, Technology, Politics

Window on Eurasia reports: “The current drive by Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov to shut down an independent website there through the use of the Soviet-era practice of legal analogy and a post-Soviet Russian pattern of defining almost any criticism of officials as extremism, will, if it proves successful, likely be a model for a Moscow drive to rein in the last free media space there.”

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