By not giving them visas, the Russian authorities prevented two Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Jean-François Julliard, from travelling to Moscow to hold a news conference there today (October 6, 2009), on the eve of the third anniversary of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. READ MORE
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