On Svoboda they discussed the warning issued to Izvestia

On September 5, 2007, on Radio Liberty, Elena Rykovtseva's program "Press Hour" discussed the warning issued by Rossvyazohrankultura to the Izvestia newspaper in connection with Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich's article "Genghis Khan, open your face."

The article was attended by the author of the article D. Sokolov-Mitrich, deputy head of the Department for Supervision and Law Enforcement in the Sphere of Mass Communications Nikolai Novikov, one of the heroes of the material Sergey Yurkov, a member of the council of the Russian community in the city of Yakutsk, as well as deputy. director of the SOVA Center Galina Kozhevnikova.

During the discussion, G. Kozhevnikova once again expressed the opinion of the SOVA Center regarding the warning issued. N. Novikov defended the position of Rossvyazokhrankultura, while the other participants in the conversation basically limited themselves to stating the problem of discrimination that exists in Yakutia.

Sources

• Rossvyazohrankultura against Izvestia. Did the newspaper deserve the accusation of extremism? // Radio Liberty. 2007. September 5.