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Journalists say colleagues attacked for negative articles on planned road
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(12 Nov 2010) • Moscow • 1. Wide of small rally on Petrovka street, in front of the Moscow Police headquarters • 2. Refocus on women holding banner reading: (Russian): Who tried to kill Oleg Kashin? We demand that every single suspect be questioned irrespective of their rank or job title. • 3. Mid of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov holding the same banner • 4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition leader: • The road from Moscow to Saint Petersburg is being built by Putin's friends, the Rotenberg brothers. They are well known because they used to practice judo with Putin. Today they are in the Forbe's list, they are US dollar billionaires and through different affiliated power structures they received this enormous contract. • Khimki forest, 5 kilometres from Moscow • 5. Zoom out from area where trees have been felled, to show where Moscow Saint Petersburg road is planed • 6. Mid of logs • 7. Close up of tree stump • 8. Leader Khimki Forest Movement Yevgeniya Chirikova and her daughter walking in area of forest which has been cut down • 9. Chirikova showing pictures of attacked journalists Mikhail Beketov and Konstantine Fetisov • 10. Pan of pictures of Fetisov and Beketov • 11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yevgeniya Chirikova, Leader Khimki Forest Movement: • These crimes are done with the specific intention of publicly slapping down the public, to show that 'we'll deal with activists and journalists in the most brutal way, we will mutilate you and no one will help you, there will be no inquiry and you will even be sued'. • 12. Wide pan of deforested area • 13. Wide of journalist Mikhail Beketov sitting on his bed • 14. Tilt up of prosthetic leg • 15. Wide of Beketov talking with head of the Beketov Foundation support group Lyudmila Fedotova • 16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lyudmila Fedotova, head of the Beketov Foundation support group: • We are all convinced that the aggression upon Mikhail is exclusively linked with his professional activity, because he published revealing articles in the Khimskinskaya Pravda newspaper about widespread corruption in the region, and in particular about corruption linked with the cutting of the Khimki Forest - because this is enormous money. • 17. Various of Beketov moving with zimmerframe and trying to talk • STORYLINE: • Protests have been held in Moscow to demand that the authorities find and bring to justice the perpetrators of a brutal assault on a Russian journalist. • Oleg Kashin, a reporter for the respected Kommersant newspaper was attacked on Saturday in Moscow. • President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered that Kashin's attackers be found and punished, but protesters on Wednesday heavily criticised the government for having created an atmosphere in which attacks such as these could take place. • Doctors on Wednesday voiced cautious optimism that Kashin, who was bludgeoned on the head, arms and legs, was improving, Russian media reported. • Colleagues of Kashin have suggested that the attack might have been related to articles that he wrote on highway corruption and the destruction of the Khimki forest near Moscow. • Other journalists and activists who have also campaigned on the issue have been attacked in the past. • One of the most serious cases was Mikhail Beketov, a muckraking Russian reporter left handicapped by a 2008 beating. • Beketov, a reporter for the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper, irked authorities with his articles about corruption involving the Khimki forest, part of which officials have torn down to make way for a highway to St. Petersburg that may or may not be built. • His supporters claim the attack was retaliation for articles criticising local authorities. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
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