Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Moscow hunting GuardianScrisse the reporter: "With Putin's Russia is a state mafia"

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange The Russian authorities revoked the visa of the Guardian correspondent, Luke Harding, who had worked for the cable from Moscow, and had called Wikileaks released by Russia of Vladimir Putin "was virtually a mafia." The British newspaper journalist, accredited in Russia since 2007, was stopped at passport control in Moscow airport as he returned after two months of work in London on the messages of the U.S.

Embassy in the Russian capital. "For you, Russia is closed," This is the only explanation for Harding, as he himself told the Federal Border Service. The journalist has since been locked up for 45 minutes in a cell and sent back with the first available flight to London on board and only the passport was returned.

In addition to working on cablegrams of Wikileaks, the correspondent of the Guardian had reported recent statements by the burning of a U.S. diplomat murder of Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian spy died in London in November 2006 to have ingested a lethal dose of polonium. According to the Russian news agency Newsru online.

com, Harding last December, citing a U.S. diplomatic source in Europe, wrote that "probably, at that time Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had been informed of the imminent death of Litvinenko." The KGB agent's widow, Anna Maria Carter, accused Russian authorities of being the masterminds of the killing of her husband, who was an opponent of the Kremlin.

The case has created tensions between London and Moscow. Another Russian website grains. ru, remember that Harding had long been targeted by Russian authorities have also interviewed, in Dagestan, the father of one of two suicide bombers that in March it blew up in the Moscow metro (40 dead, 130 injured).

In April last year had been stopped for several hours by security forces in Ingushetia, another troubled Caucasus republic. Moscow not to deport a British correspondent since the Cold War. The last case was that of the Sunday Times journalist, Angus Roxburgh returned home in retaliation for the expulsion of 11 alleged Soviet spies in London.

"My expulsion remains a mystery: it seems that people in the Kremlin fear me more than I fear them," wrote Harding on Twitter today. In telling the secrets clablogrammi U.S. diplomat, Harding had written that "Russia is a kleptocracy and corrupt autocrat, centered on the leadership of former President and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in which officials, oligarchs and organized crime are combined to create a ' was practically mafia '"No comment, the president of the expulsion of foreign journalists in Moscow Harding.

"I do not know the reasons for expulsion, I'm investigating and I can not comment," the president said the association, the Kuwaiti Adib Sayyed, 20 years Kuna correspondent of the Russian capital. The Russian authorities are now silent, while a strong condemnation came from the former Soviet dissident Liudmilla Aleksey, head of the Moscow-based NGO "Helsinki" ensure that its human rights: "It 's a sad fact and alarming "said the woman all'Interfax.

"It 's been expelled because he is a spy? If so then they told us, "said Aleksey, that the move is" a hard blow not only for freedom of expression, but also for the image "of Russia. The President of the 'Foundation for the Defense of Glasnost', Aleksiei Simonov, believes that the deportation is "linked to political reasons", but there will be no retaliation on the part of London.

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