A boy jupmes across a stream in the Assinovskoye Gorge.
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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Austrian Journalists Shot Wrong Film
A crew of Austrian TV journalists headed by Susanne Scholl, chief of the Moscow news office, was detained in Chechnya. The journalists were accused of unsanctioned arrival at Shatoisky mountainous area and of collecting information that discredits local authorities.
Austrian TV journalist Susanne Scholl and her two assistants (cameraman and sound technician) were detained Friday on the Caucasus road, near the Assinovskaya turning. The police checked their documents, which were completely in order, and told the crew to go to the district office in Achkhoy-Martan. There, not the police but officers of Federal Security Service interrogated the journalists.
The journalists were released in a few hours. As the video was seized, the crew had to leave without attaining official purpose of sanctioned business tour to Grozny. “They were going to record an interview with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, but he was away on trip all days when the journalists were in the republic,” said Alkhanov’s briefer Said-Magomed Isaraev.
In enforcement bodies of Chechnya, they attribute the visit of reporters not to their desire to interview the president but rather to intention to collect “materials discrediting local authorities,” emphasizing that the crew could have met Alkhanov in Moscow actually. In sober fact, the journalists secretly went to Shatoisky area to interview the locals and film there, said a source with enforcement bodies of Chechnya. Exactly that video was confiscated in Achkhoy-Martan, the source specified.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 27, 2006
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