1,500 Demand Media Freedom--Moscow Times

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5//The Moscow Times, Russia Monday, May 23, 2005. Issue 3171.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/23/013.html



1,500 DEMAND MEDIA FREEDOM

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Some 1,500 protesters demanded greater press freedom and more access to state-dominated television networks at a Yabloko-organized rally Sunday near the Ostankino television tower.



Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky told protesters wearing masks reading "Shut Off" and carrying signs reading "News Is Propaganda" and "Down With Censorship!" that Russia had no freedom of the press.



"The freedom of the press is not the freedom of propaganda or pornography. It is the freedom to discuss the hardest questions and to find answers," Yavlinsky said, making a rare public appearance since he and his liberal party failed to get elected to the State Duma in 2003.

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Now when are we going to do the same thing? I want to storm CNN with torches and pitchforks...

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