(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF, on 25 March 1998, under a warrant given by the Deputy General Prosecutor Michail Khatyshev, some members of the tax-police staff carried out a search in the flats of two journalists in Saint Petersburg : Liubov Amromina, a television journalist, and Ruslan Linkov, correspondent of some Russian and foreign newspapers. […]
(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF, on 25 March 1998, under a warrant given by the
Deputy General Prosecutor Michail Khatyshev, some members of the tax-police
staff carried out a search in the flats of two journalists in Saint
Petersburg :
Liubov Amromina, a television journalist, and Ruslan Linkov, correspondent of
some Russian and foreign newspapers.
Both journalists also work as assistants to deputies of the lower chamber of
Parliament, the Duma.
According to Ruslan Linkov, the police officers were looking for some
documents about two politicians. The journalist thinks that this search was
ordered by the Governor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev, after the
release
of some information against him.
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