The YABLOKO party believes that the stance of the State
Duma deputies in their
conflict with the MK newspaper violates the Russian law
envisaging that it is the court which takes decisions on all
the disputes relating to publications in the mass media.
The MPs actions not only contravene the procedures established
by law, but are also in conflict with ethical and moral norms
governing public life.
When a parliament of a huge country sets aside all the important
issues and adopts a special statement in respect of one particular
newspaper devoting a lot of time paid by the taxpayers to
a discussion of an article published in a newspaper, this
demonstrates, above all, the failure and inefficiency of such
a parliament.
The MPs demands to [Pavel Gusev], Editor-in-Chief of the
MK to leave his post of Chairman of the Moscow Journalists
Union represents an attempt to interfere into the spheres
of public life that are completely beyond control of the legislative
authority and are governed by internal corporate standards
of professional communities.
The MPS idea to "take away" MK from Pavel Gusev
[who is also the owner of the paper] is a direct attack on
the principle of the inviolability of private property. Proposing
such solutions to disputes with the media MPs undermine the
legal foundations of the state, which again demonstrates their
great incompetence and catastrophic failure as the legislators.
YABLOKO also believes that the deputy of the State Duma Andrei
Isayev should bring his apology to the MK newspaper and journalists,
whom he threatened in Twitter in violation of Article 144
of the Criminal Code on inadmissibility of pressure on journalists.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Grigory Yavlinsky
See also:
Freedom
of Speech
Human
Rights
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