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July 2, 2004
BELARUSIAN AUTHORITIES CLOSE RUSSIAN TELEVISION OFFICE

Belarusian authorities have closed the Minsk office of Russian state-television network Rossiya after alleging biased reporting on a protest by the Belarusian opposition in the Belarusian capital on 21 July to mark President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's decade in power, BelaPAN reported on 24 July. The official grounds for the closure were the alleged dissemination by Rossiya journalists of "knowingly false information that insulted the dignity of Belarusian citizens and had a negative effect on the image of the Republic of Belarus," according to Belarusian Television. Rossiya correspondent Dzmitry Pyatrou reported the number of demonstrators at between 2,000 and 5,000, while the police maintained that just 150 people took part in the protest. Pyatrou "flagrantly violated the standards of journalistic ethics by giving obviously wrong information in his report," the Belarusian Foreign Ministry charged.


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July 2, 2004BELARUSIAN AUTHORITIES CLOSE RUSSIAN TELEVISION OFFICE

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