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Roskomnadzor, Russia’s government-run media watchdog, has issued a new set of “clarifications” about the media’s freedom to mention officially recognized “extremist” groups. The Justice Ministry has banned 41 such groups, most recently targeting five Ukrainian nationalist organizations in November 2014.
According to Roskomnadzor’s statement today, Russia’s law against extremism prohibits the dissemination of any information about a banned extremist group, unless media outlets also indicate that the organization has been “liquidated” or that its “activities have been banned in Russia.” The other permitted way to mention such organizations it to do so “in a negative light, …read more
Source: Global Voices
