Russian TV channel RT confirms release of its stringer
Source: ITAR-TASS
MOSCOW, July 26. /ITAR-TASS/.
Stringer of Russian TV channel RT Graham Phillips who was detained in Ukraine several days ago was released and is staying in Poland, RT website reported.
Phillips went on the line for the first time since his disappearance on July 22.
Ukrainian media have earlier reported about the release of the journalist with the reference to the Ukrainian Security Service. They also said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies had expelled Phillips from the country and banned him from entering Ukraine for three years, explaining this by interests of state security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The RT stringer confirmed this information in his Twitter account. He also added that he had not been beaten up after detention, but Ukrainian military forces had taken his car, money and bullet-proof vest. I'm free, ok, deported from Ukraine, banned for 3 years, because 'I work for RT', the RT stringer wrote down.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine
I'm free, ok, deported from Ukraine, banned for 3 years, because 'I work for RT'. My car, money, bullet-proof vest taken by Ukrainian army.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
My accounts on Facebook and Vkontakte hacked, the Ukrainian SBU deleted every single file on my computer. Working to recover them now.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
1/2 I wasn't beaten, Vadim was severely beaten, but had a difficult day of detention by the Ukrainian army at Donetsk Airport. They asked me
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
2/2 lots of questions about the Donetsk Republic. I refused to answer, they put me in a room next to artillery position, being fired at.
GrahamWPhillips @GrahamWP_UK
Going to Donetsk airport at night to film was entirely my own decision, @RT_com told me in strong terms not to go, but I went anyway.
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK
Graham Phillips had been previously detained in May and released after two days in Mariupol:
Graham Phillips, a blogger hired on a freelance basis by the Kremlin-funded channel, gained notoriety during the conflict in the east for his gonzo-style subjective reports and his sharp online criticism of the Maidan protests and the new Ukrainian government, declaring several times that he believes the country "does not exist" any more.
Phillips, 35, tweeted to his nearly 11,000 followers that he had been released from custody, and revealed he was not facing any criminal charges or deportation threat following his arrest. He was arrested at a checkpoint near the flashpoint city of Mariupol on Tuesday and was transferred to Zaporozhye where he spent the night in detention ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Fuck the propagandist dirtbag.
delrem
(9,688 posts)I'm continuously impressed by such opinions.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)You can't be bothered with such freedoms when doing that.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)And you are getting the genuine article...no borrowed thoughts from people that are above me.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Myself, I understand the ambiguity of your "they".
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)And the last time we did it was Saddam, and you know how that turned out...
And when you see people making wild unfounded charges against a country and it's leaders without any credible evidence and doing it so quickly it is like the smoke of a fire...firsst you smell it in the air, then you see it in the air, next you feel it.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)got the boot. Boo Hoo!
Guess what nationality these dead journalists are. Go on, guess!
delrem
(9,688 posts)Sounds oh so very progressive of you - and to cast me as an "RT defender", an enemy. How very very progressive of you.
This was about a stringer. Someone who worked in journalism.
Byeee!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)a difference.
delrem
(9,688 posts)what you want to hear are all targets.
I hear ya, Tarheel_Dem.
I hear ya loud and clear.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)It's not about having a coherent argument, they just hate anything that isn't anti-American.
delrem
(9,688 posts)It figures, coming from you, josh. And you called *me* your "stalker".
My, ain't irony a bitch.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Cha
(296,881 posts)attempt to deflect by accusing those pointing it out with accusations of "attacking" or like now.. trying desperately to throw it back at you but failing miserably.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)Democratic Underground is an online community for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office. Teabaggers, Neo-cons, Dittoheads, Paulites, Freepers, Birthers, and right-wingers in general are not welcome here. Neither are certain extreme-fringe left-wingers, including advocates of violent political/social change, hard-line communists, terrorist-apologists, America-haters, kooks, crackpots, LaRouchies, and the like.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice
Some step right up to the "America-haters" line, and in some cases, go over it in a big way.
reorg
(3,317 posts)I labored for weeks or even months to get the Wikipedia article on "Anti-Americanism" in line with reality but gave up in the end. (Haven't looked at how it has developed since, either). I have a pretty good idea what I am talking about, so, please no cheap slogans: how do you define "America-hater"?
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)now I know what YOU are all about.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)reorg
(3,317 posts)and some sources said he was dead. so I thought it worth mentioning that he is alive and well.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)In general, allowing agents of the enemy to operate freely doesn't happen in war time. Russia being an all-but-declared combatant in the war against Ukraine's government, its agents should expect to be treated as such.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)At least this didn't get the beating that the so called "rebels" have given the journalist they've held for weeks.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Graham Phillips, an RT contributor covering the conflict in eastern Ukraine, has been deported to the UK, following his arrest at Donetsk airport on Tuesday night.
http://rt.com/news/175676-ukraine-deport-rt-contributor/
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)Bet his "concert visa" expired.
reorg
(3,317 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 25, 2014, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)
(before editing his post, user had claimed Phillips already had been deported before he was detained yet again.)
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)Lied about why they were in Ukraine:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/british-journalist-graham-phillips-detained-east-ukraine
reorg
(3,317 posts)as pointed out by UKRANEWS and Euromaidan.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)And his visa must long since have expired.
Poor Graham, can't hit on Ukrainian girls anymore.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)I can't blame Ukraine for this definitive action.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)rebels release the CNN journalist unharmed.
Armed men from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic seized Anton Skiba outside a hotel in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk after he had worked for one day with a CNN television crew.
Graham Phillips should have been kicked out for what he was doing. Journalists are supposed to report unbiased and he was not and was actively on the rebel side. He also now seemed to have been in the country illegally and was deported. I wonder if Russia would be so nice?
delrem
(9,688 posts)Goya: The Disasters of War.
eta: I'm not *quite* so pickily one-sided as you, though.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)So I'm gonna vote NO.
jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)Foundation
[edit]"The creation of Russia Today was a part of a larger PR effort by the Russian government intended to improve the image of Russia abroad.[8] RT was conceived by former media minister Mikhail Lesin,[9] and Vladimir Putin's press spokesperson Aleksei Gromov.[10] At the time of RT's founding, RIA Novosti director Svetlana Mironyuk stated: "Unfortunately, at the level of mass consciousness in the West, Russia is associated with three words: communism, snow and poverty," and added "We would like to present a more complete picture of life in our country."[9] It is registered as an autonomous nonprofit organization[11][12] funded by the federal budget of Russia through the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
reorg
(3,317 posts)but, according to Wikipedia, a number of other American-based cable channels have Russian subsidiaries.
State-sponsored US propaganda is still broadcasted on Radio, nowadays they also have websites, of course.
They were founded as an anti-communist news source in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe, as part of a large-scale Psychological Operation during the Cold War. RFE/RL received funds from the Central Intelligence Agency until 1972.[5] During the earliest years of Radio Free Europe's existence, the CIA and the U.S. Department of State issued broad policy directives, and a system evolved where broadcast policy was determined through negotiation among the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and RFE staff.[6]
RFE/RL was headquartered at Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany, from 1949 to 1995. In 1995, the headquarters were moved to Prague in the Czech Republic. European operations have been significantly reduced since the end of the Cold War. In addition to the headquarters, the service maintains 20 local bureaus in countries throughout their broadcast region, as well as a corporate office in Washington, D.C. RFE/RL broadcasts in 28 languages[7] to 21 countries[8] including Armenia, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.[9]
RFE/RL Broadcast Region 2009
He was arrested in his hotel room. He'd been followed before that and arrested after something like 1 day working for CNN. (He'd worked for some local media before this.)
He reported that they had a pretty thick set of charges against him--spying, sedition, with materials collected from the web and from interviews.
No word of Skiba's detention in the Russia press, which was all a-twitter about the RT guy.
Russia wasn't so nice. There was a reporter who showed up for the Savchenko affair in Voronezh. Ukr reporters aren't being given visas if covering that case is their reason for being in the less-than-cental town of Voronezh. They arrested him and he's currently held in jail, charges filed against him, pending his court hearing. (The Savchenko business is being tightly managed in the media.)
reorg
(3,317 posts)Anton Skiba called CNN on Saturday to confirm his release. CNN also received visual confirmation that Skiba is free from sources on the ground in Donetsk.
On Tuesday evening, armed fighters led by a senior official from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic were waiting outside the Donbass Palace Hotel, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, as CNN television crew returned from a day's work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Skiba had worked for one day with the CNN crew when he was detained.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/26/world/europe/ukraine-cnn-freelancer-freed/index.html?iref=allsearch