| ¿Regreso al stalinismo en Rusia ? THE RETURN OF STALIN ? [boodskap #31627] |
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Subject: ¿Regreso al stalinismo en Rusia?
Date: 14 juin, 2000 23:14
MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - Russia's newspapers on Wednesday interpreted the
detention of a leading media baron as an attack on press freedom, or an attempt to curb the influence of a few businessmen.
Vladimir Gusinsky, whose liberal television, radio, newspaper and magazine
group has often criticised the Kremlin, was detained on Tuesday evening. Newspapers were shocked.
Sevodnya, owned by Gusinsky's Media-Most company, carried the headline:
``If you criticise the authorities, you'll end up in jail.'' It said the detention was an attack on press freedom disguised as a criminal investigation.
( THAT'S THE TYPICAL METHOD USED BY KASSTRO IN THE
FIRST DAYS OF HIS TYRANNY...COPIED FROM WHOM ELSE ?...THE OLD SOVIET COMMIES ! )
President Vladimir Putin's pre-election pledge to create a ``dictatorship of
the law'' had turned into a dictatorship of fear, it said.
Vremya Novostei, however, concluded the arrest marked the end of an era when
powerful businessmen, known as oligarchs, held sway. But it would be hard for
the Kremlin to prove the move was not politically motivated, the paper said.
Business daily Kommersant said news of the arrest tore through business
circles like a bomb blast. Such a powerful entrepreneur had never been held
before, it noted.
Popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda carried a picture of the media baron
standing behind one of his body guards, commenting that he had always felt
safe.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta said the authorities would either have to prove
Gusinsky's guilt or else suffer a major defeat. It said the timing of the
arrest could be significant with President Vladimir Putin on a foreign visit
to Spain.
``They'll always be able to say: the president was not in the country, he did
not know what was going on,'' it said.
In a sidebar to its frontpage story on the detention, liberal daily Izvestia
described the Butyrskaya prison where Gusinsky was being held. It said
conditions in the prison, rebuilt 121 years ago, were grim, with 60 people
sharing 75 sq metres (90 sq yards) and having to take turns to sleep.
Famous former residents included the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the dissident
writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the founder of the of the Soviet secret
police Felix Dzerzhinsky.
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