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    ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER, VICTIM OF FSS LIEUTENANT COLONEL, WILL APPLY TO ECTHR

    Lragir.am
    Law - Monday, 31 March 2014, 17:08

    The scandal caused by the closure of the Armenian newspaper Third
    Force Plus by the Russian authorities is gathering momentum. Recently
    the editorial office has received a letter from the head of the mass
    media freedom office of the OSCE Andrey Richter informing that the
    illicit closure of the Armenian newspaper has been noted by the OSCE.

    Mr. Richter advised the Armenian reporters to use the applicable
    national legal mechanisms and apply to court. A court decision that
    will violate the right to freedom of expression could be disputed at
    the European Court of Human Rights.

    The problem is, however, that the Armenian court is not competent
    to examine this case because the crime against the newspaper has
    been committed by the citizen of a foreign state (Russia) and in
    the territory of a foreign state (Russian Federation). The Russian
    law enforcement bodies refuse to investigate the crime against the
    newspaper, N. Sargsyan of the Third Force writes in an article.

    The Russian embassy to Armenia is silent. Once one of its officials
    met with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vahram Aghajanyan and
    asked whether the Armenian reporters know what agency the Russian
    official Vadim Pozdishev who stole the assets of the newspaper
    represents. Having heard the answer, the representative of the Russian
    embassy disappeared.

    Later the ex-advisor to the Russian ambassador Victor Krivopuskov
    met with the editor-in-chief and advised him to put up with the
    embezzlement because there are very many similar cases in Russia and
    it is meaningless to fight against it.

    Note that the Russian official Vadim Posdishev has embezzled the
    assets of the Armenian newspaper from one of the Moscow-based banks.

    He introduced himself as a member of Putin's team of political
    strategists and an officer of the Russian Federal Council. Later it
    turned out that Pozdishev is a FSS lieutenant colonel.

    Some time later he informed the editorial board of the newspaper
    that some circumstances caused dissatisfaction in Russian officials,
    namely having a Jewish staff member on board, and the exclusive
    interview with the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorsky.

    By the way, the FSS dismissed Pozdishev from service in July 2011 and
    banned his departure from the country until 2015 (according to other
    information, until 2017). However, he has not returned the newspaper's
    assets. Moreover, the FSS has placed him in RBE GROUP as head of the
    analytical unit.

    The Third Force is preparing a letter to the first president of Armenia
    Serzh Sargsyan to facilitate the solution of this problem within the
    interstate relationship because the newspaper's editorial board is
    not able to apply to an Armenian court. The Armenian reporters are
    preparing to apply to the ECHR upon the OSCE's advice.

    - See more at:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/right/view/32205#sthash.dwtIjvt6.dpuf

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