Censorship in the Kaliningrad region?

On November 17, 2005, the directorate of the Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper at the last moment (the publication was announced on the air of several radio stations) removed from the front page of the newspaper the article "The housing problem for a million dollars", dedicated to the scandal with the allocation of 30 million rubles from the regional budget for the purchase of apartments members of the regional government.

According to T. Zamyatina, the decision to remove the article was made personally by the general director Igor Nikonov, explaining this by the fact that "the editor-in-chief unprofessionally builds a policy with the regional authorities" . "If the governor has submitted such a document to the Regional Duma for consideration, then this fact is already subject to public discussion ," T. Zamyatina noted. It is curious that a material on a similar topic was published a day earlier in the newspaper Arguments and Facts-Kaliningrad.

On November 21, 2005, it became known that Tamara Zamyatina, editor-in-chief of Kaliningradskaya Pravda, would be fired. The decision of the founders of the newspaper to dismiss Tamara Zamyatina from the post of editor-in-chief was reported by an informed source in the power structures of the Kaliningrad region.

T. Zamyatin was supported by almost all the Kaliningrad media. Igor Rudnikov, editor-in-chief of the Novye Kolesa weekly and deputy of the regional duma, told a Gazeta.Ru correspondent that such a dismissal is " "an unfortunate event . The head of the Kaliningrad media holding "Kaskad" Igor Rostov called what is happening censorship. In his opinion, with such an approach of the new government to the press, this is not the last dismissal of well-known journalists in the region.

The public reaction of the governor of the Kaliningrad region Georgy Boos is still unknown. The head of the culture committee under the governor, Svetlana Sivkova, said: "I will do my best so that Tamara is not fired . "

Sources

• The new coat of arms of the Kaliningrad region has the wing of an eagle of Nazi Germany: Kaliningrad in a week // IA REGNUM. 2005. November 18.
• Fichte M. "This is censorship" // Gazeta.Ru. 2005. November 21.