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The New York Times International Weekly supplement, offered in 31 newspapers from 28 countries, announces a re-launch that aims to boost readership for the "flagship" New York Times, reports Brand Republic.

The New York Times (NYT) Moscow bureau has created a Russian-language blog whose title reads "Tell the Americans and the entire world about Russia", reported Marketing Media Review.

The viewpoints featured on the blogs are translated into English and will be published on the newspaper's official site, even if the tone of the content is negative. The issues discussed in the blogs are suggested by NYT journalists and include translated NYT news stories about Russia.

 Russian bloggers had the chance to pose questions to one of Barack Obama's advisor, who answered the inquiries and studied the nearly 500 comments left on the blog.

Source: Marketing Media Review

The Federal Mass Media Inspection Service accused the St. Petersburg edition of Russian daily newspaper Novaya Gazeta of advocating hatred towards Georgians, warning the paper that it risks being shut down if it defies the media and extremism laws again.

Russian Authorities in charge of mass communication and protection of cultural heritage (Rossvyazkomandzor) called to attention the need for national media to remain within legal boundaries, in light of the recent events in Dagestan when a newspaper was shut down for supposedly promoting extremist views.

Rossvyazkomandzor pointed out that it is necessary that the media conform to the Russian Federation law that dictates that it is forbidden to use "sources of mass information" to release content that contains signs of agitation over social, racial, national or religious backgrounds. If journalists fail to do so and adhere to diffusing extremist content, "steps will be taken", reported gipp.ru.

Nadira Isayeva, editor-in-chief of Dagestan's independent weekly paper Chernovik, was accused of soliciting extremist views and prejudice. The paper quoted guerilla chief Rappani Khalilov, who accused the local the regional authorities in Dagestan and Chechnya of "corruption, robbing his fellow countrymen and enslaving themselves to the Kremlin," reported the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Robert Mahoney, CPJ's Deputy Director, said that it isn't illegal to quote guerilla leaders, mentioning that the authorities should drop the charges against Isayeva and permit her "to work "without fear of retaliation".

"There is no such law in Russia that prohibits quoting extremist leaders, and the quote--as well as the entire article--contains no calls to extremism, does not give a positive image to terrorists, nor does it incite any kind of hatred," said Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of Sova, an independent Moscow-based watchdog for nationalism and xenophobia.

Source: gipp.ru, CPJ

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Russia: Authorities close Chernovik for extremism

The Russian government continued its repressive oversight of the press Thursday, raiding the Moscow offices of the Exile, an English-language newspaper, accusing the paper of violating a media law prohibiting the publication of extremist articles.

The Exile was reputed for its strident criticism of the government, and infamous for its bold, occasionally lewd content, but it has lost several investors as a result of the investigation and now lacks sufficient publishing funds.

"It's like we've got polonium on us," said Mark Ames, the Exile's American editor. "Who will want to touch us now?"

The Exile has never been afraid to stir a little controversy; Ames' frequent articles about his late-night encounters bordered on misogynistic. And though the paper was well respected for its sharp, critical news coverage of the Kremlin, critics claimed its coarse style was out of place in Russia's maturing society.

"I find it really offensive," said Ames. "They resent the fact that we did something that wasn't supposed to be done. I'm sorry that a lot of people seem to want to dance on our grave."

Under new president Dmitry Medvedev, many Russians hoped for a more open news climate than had existed under Vladimir Putin, Medvedev's more conservative predecessor. This, however, has not been the case. During Medvedev's first month in office, the Kremlin has increased its raids on independent media organizations.

The Exile's future looks grim: the paper is struggling to keep its website alive and Ames says its print version is extinct.

"The paper's gone," he said. "It's dust and there's now way to get it going again."

Note: Russia is not alone in limiting press expression. Some of its neighbors - Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan - have introduced measures designed to restrict criticism of the government. Though the details of the measures vary in each country, all of them blur the line between the press and the government. Click here for specifics.

Also watch of video of Garry Kasparov, leader of the political party The Other Russia, speaking at the 15th World Editors Forum.

Source: Telegraph, Follow the Media

Vladimir Putin had shut down Russian paper Moskovsky Korrespondent when it reported that the president had left his wife to marry 24-year-old former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva. (Read more on our sister blog SFN). However, the tabloid's website reappeared on Monday, three days after Putin suspended operations.

Whether or not the paper will remain in publication is still in question.

Artyom Artyomov, director of National Media Company, which publishes the paper, said, "Chances that publication of this newspaper would be resumed are small."

Owner of National Media Company Alexander Lebedev said that the "reasons behind closing of the newspaper are purely economic."

Source: Moscow Times

On the morning of March 21, Ilyas Shurpaev, a 32-year-old reporter for Russian State TV Channel One who had moved to Moscow from Dagestan (a semi-autonomous Russian republic), was found stabbed and strangled in his Moscow apartment. Hours later, 58-year-old, Dagestan State Radio and TV Chairman Gadzhi (Gaji) Abashilov was machine-gunned near a shopping mall in the Dagestan capital Makhachkala.

The Moscow Prosecutor General ruled that Shurpaev's death was not linked to his professional activities of working as Channel One's Northern Caucasus reporter. But by Friday, police assumed that both killings relate to the victims' professional activities, reported Russia Today and AP.

Hours earlier, Shurpaev had written in his blog that his name had appeared on a blacklist of journalists barred from publishing in a Dagestani newspaper. Nastoyashcheye Vremya by RAI Novosti is the name for the "battle going on between journalists and the founders" of a Dagestani newspaper, which Shurpaev also wrote about in his blog.

Apparently, journalists were forced to write negative reports about Dagestan's government and president, according to Russia Today. Svobodnaya Respublica regularly publishes articles that criticize Dagistani leaders and other figures. Journalist Zaur Gaziev was beaten the same day his article mentioning Abashilov.

Ilyas Shurpaev wrote "nice" pieces on monasteries and salmon fishing, but because he wrote them in Dagestan, Chechnya and other parts of the north Caucasus, he was considered "dissident."

Gaji Abashilov had been editor of a local weekly newspaper Molodyozh Dagestana and still wrote a regular column and had hosted a TV show. In 2002 the Dagestan Bolsevik Party unsuccessfully sued him for defamation after a column was published suggesting the local Bolsevik's were neo-Nazis.

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, whose investigation of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya led to the arrest of four suspects, is personally investigating Abashilov's murder.

After his beating, Gaziev said to Novayagazeta, "...all is possible in Dagestan. Your foe's foe might organize such an attack to cross him up".

Source: Follow the Media

Natalia Morar, an investigative reporter in Moscow for the monthly independent newsmagazine New Time was barred from entry to Moscow on her return from an unrelated press trip to Israel. She was sent to her native country, Moldova without further explanations.

The Russian Union of Journalists is being evicted from its headquarters in Moscow to make space for the Russia Today television channel. The move comes less than two weeks before the union hosts the triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, free press has not always been the norm in Russia. Yet newspapers have soared, and the market now counts over 400 daily titles designed for each and every taste.

The theme of the 14th World Editors Forum, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from June 3 through 6, will be  "Quality Journalism in the Digital Age." More than 1,500 publishers, chief editors and senior news executives are expected to come discuss, among others, issues of integrated newsrooms, user-generated content and quality journalism in the future at the conference, organized jointly with the 60th World Newspaper Congress.

Nadia Al-Saqqaf, Editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, has been awarded the 2006 Gebran Tueni Award, a new prize from the World Association of Newspapers to honour an editor or publisher from the Arab region.

According to BBC Monitoring, Pro-Putin oligarch Vladimir Potanin, owner of the Prof-Media holding who in the past focused on ownership of print media and avoided TV and the internet, is reversing strategy, selling off his main newspapers and buying TV channels and websites.

Since early 2006, he has bought three small TV channels and in late October bought the big Rambler Media company, which owns the prominent internet news site Lenta.ru and the popular search engine Rambler.ru.

Traditionally, newspaper coverage – from Japan or around the world – has been focused on the United States and Europe. But now Japanese media are becoming increasingly involved in the world’s next big thing, China.

A debate about the future of the printed world in the Internet era was held this past weekend in Paris. "Cité de la russite" or the "City of Success" brought together some of the best minds in the media business in a panel entitled "Towards a new responsibility of the press."

When businessman Alisher Usmanov, reportedly close to the Russian government, acquired ZAO Kommersant Publishing House he claimed he was not going to interfere on editorial issues. Yet, the continuous buyouts of government critical media outlets by Kremlin-friendly capitals had raised concerns that the daily Kommersant would have journalists pull back on criticism.

The quality broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung wants to move into a relatively untapped market in Germany; the Sunday edition. If the daily goes through with the project, it would print only the fourth Sunday paper in the country after Bild am Sonntag, Welt am Sonntag and Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung.

Following the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum, the most successful conferences in World Association of Newspapers history, several events are planned in the coming months to offer newspaper publishers, senior executives and chief editors more opportunities to gather with their colleagues from around the world to examine the issues and challenges facing the industry.