Moscow - April 30, the official website of the Federal Service for Oversight in the Field of Communication, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) issued a warning to revocation of the permit allowing distribute foreign magazines The Watchtower and Awake! on Russian territory.
This decree dating from April 26, 2010 was brought to the attention of several media agencies from April 28. Dissemination of two publications concerned had been guaranteed by the State Committee of Russian Federation for Press in 1997. Administrative Center Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia has not been notified of this decision before it is published on the Internet. Magazines are translated into many languages, they are among the most widely disseminated journals in the world and have been played in Russia for decades.
Vasily Kalin, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, finds this shocking decision, like other Russian Witnesses. He stressed that even if the Supreme Court of the Republic of Altai and the Russian Federation have found some numbers of the two magazines 'extremists' decision is also not accepted, they said nothing about other editions of both magazines. He wondered what it is the legal basis for the ban and noted that the text issued by the Roskomnadzor contains errors: the name "Jehovah" and the title of a journal are misspelled (as the name ' Jehovah 'is part of the official name of Witness!).
Counsel Viktor Zhenkov remark that for his part in its decision of December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation said that the ruling of the Rostov Regional Court does In no case the powers of the Administrative Centre of the Witnesses. Now that decision is indeed mentioned as justification for the ban ...
This gives reason to the Attorney General of the Russian Federation, Yu Ya. Chaika, who said during a Council meeting in 2009, a distinction was observed between the Act and its application: "The law is violated almost everywhere" by government agencies, "he said.
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This decree dating from April 26, 2010 was brought to the attention of several media agencies from April 28. Dissemination of two publications concerned had been guaranteed by the State Committee of Russian Federation for Press in 1997. Administrative Center Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia has not been notified of this decision before it is published on the Internet. Magazines are translated into many languages, they are among the most widely disseminated journals in the world and have been played in Russia for decades.
Vasily Kalin, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, finds this shocking decision, like other Russian Witnesses. He stressed that even if the Supreme Court of the Republic of Altai and the Russian Federation have found some numbers of the two magazines 'extremists' decision is also not accepted, they said nothing about other editions of both magazines. He wondered what it is the legal basis for the ban and noted that the text issued by the Roskomnadzor contains errors: the name "Jehovah" and the title of a journal are misspelled (as the name ' Jehovah 'is part of the official name of Witness!).
Counsel Viktor Zhenkov remark that for his part in its decision of December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation said that the ruling of the Rostov Regional Court does In no case the powers of the Administrative Centre of the Witnesses. Now that decision is indeed mentioned as justification for the ban ...
This gives reason to the Attorney General of the Russian Federation, Yu Ya. Chaika, who said during a Council meeting in 2009, a distinction was observed between the Act and its application: "The law is violated almost everywhere" by government agencies, "he said.
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