Thorough reading of Russia’s newspapers will held prosecutors to suppress all attempts to destabilize situation in the regions because of financial crisis.
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Crisis Reached a Word
The RF Prosecutor General Office joined the crisis battle of authorities by ordering local prosecutors to oppose media attacks on the banks. The prosecutors’ inspections aimed at unmasking attempts to trigger financial collapse have been set into motion in the regions and Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika personally controls their progress.
The Sverdlov Region’s prosecutors set to inspecting local media that could “destabilize situation in the region,” representatives of the Sverdlov Region’s Prosecutor Office said yesterday. They were ordered to probe into reports about information attacks on the credit institutions of Ekaterinburg via Internet. The first aim was URA.ru news agency that covers problems of regional banks triggered by financial crisis. Its Editor-In-Chief Aksana Panova was summoned to the prosecutor’s office for “a talk” with investigator.
According to Panova, she was asked about the methods applied by the editorial office to receive information about banks. As a result, Panova said, she spent roughly an hour clarifying to the prosecutor the financial standing of regional enterprises.
The Sverdlov Region’s campaign is only the beginning. Very soon, the checks of regional media will start all over Russia. They were initiated by the RF Prosecutor General Office that ordered to regional subordinates to arrange supervision in response to the government’s actions for rehabilitating financial and other sectors of economy. Amid other things, the local prosecutors were committed “to oppose the facts of information attacks on the banks.”
“It isn’t the censorship,” briefers of the RF Prosecutor General Office explained. “We are checking accurateness of the information.” Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika personally controls the process.
It was President Dmitry Medvedev that drew attention of enforcement bodies to the “information attacks” that could “destabilize social situation.” “We have the stable state. No need to return to 1990s, when everything was raging,” the president made clear November 7. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov that attended the meeting with president apparently took the hint.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 19, 2008
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