{"id":25288,"date":"2011-08-04T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25288"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:31:48","slug":"russia-newspaper-issues-seized-by-regional-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25288","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Newspaper issues seized by regional governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40,000 copies of\u00a0Izvestia Kaliningrada, a weekly published in Kaliningrad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>, were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/russia-two-seizures-of-newspaper-issues-02-08-2011,40734.html\" target=\"_blank\">seized <\/a>by regional governors on 29 July. Its editor was also detained for several hours at the Regional Centre for Combating Extremism. The edition, due to have been published on the eve of a visit by President Medvedev, contained an open letter to the Russian leader signed by more than 2,000 local residents calling for the regional government\u2019s removal because several of its members were implicated in corruption. The head of the regional centre, Alexander Shelyakov, told the\u00a0Interfax\u00a0news agency that he intervened after being informed that the issue contained &#8220;extremist statements.&#8221; This is not a one-off event: on 4 July\u00a0in St Petersburg of 90 per cent of the copies of the business weekly\u00a0Kommersant Vlast were seized. The edition criticised the city&#8217;s governor Valentina Matviyenko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40,000 copies of\u00a0Izvestia Kaliningrada, a weekly published in Kaliningrad, Russia, were seized by regional governors on 29 July. Its editor was also detained for several hours at the Regional Centre for Combating Extremism. The edition, due to have been published on the eve of a visit by President Medvedev, contained an open letter to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3601,1563,3600,727,7349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84682,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288\/revisions\/84682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}