Posted on 01/14/2014 7:15:51 AM PST by mac_truck
US journalist David Satter, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Monday he had been banned from the country in one of the first such expulsions since the Cold War.
Satter, a former Financial Times and Wall Street Journal correspondent who published three books on Russia and the former Soviet Union, had been living and working in the country since September 2013 as an adviser for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The US government-funded broadcaster said that the US Embassy in Moscow has been informed of the move and lodged a formal diplomatic protest.
Embassy officials have sought and not obtained an explanation from Russian authorities.
The move, coming on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics next month, was likely to further strain already tense ties between Washington and Moscow.
Satter had travelled on December 5 to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where he reported mass protests against Ukraine's scrapping of an EU pact.
But he insisted that the "Kiev reporting was a diary and had nothing to do with the Russian decision."
Satter was then told on December 25 that his application for a new visa to Russia had been rejected, on the grounds that his presence was "undesirable."
"My belongings are in Moscow, where I have an apartment. But without permission to enter the country, I cannot retrieve them. I would like to return to Moscow to work but cannot do so without a visa.
"I want the Russians to reverse their decision," added Satter, who also holds fellowship positions at the Hudson Institute, Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He had also been reporting and providing commentary to RFE/RL's Russian service, in addition to providing interviews and analysis to other news and opinion websites.
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In fairness, there haven't been any Western journalists killed in Russia...ever that I'm aware of, and many of the Russian journalists have been killed covering the war in Chechnya.
Despite the screeching from the Soros crowd, I doubt there is much evidence of a central government conspiracy to silence Russian journalists, although clearly the Russian government doesn't kowtow to the media like it does in the US.
>>In fairness, there haven’t been any Western journalists killed in Russia...ever that I’m aware of, and many of the Russian journalists have been killed covering the war in Chechnya<<
What about Cynthia Elbaum and Paul Khlebnikov?
But I’m kind of agree that it is plain dumb to blame Russian government fot death of most of these people. The majority had an obvious dog and fleas problem.
As for Elbaum she may be legitimately counted as a victim of Russian government but you have to take into an account the way it was. She was hanging with Chechen military in the First Chechen War and tried to make a nice photo of an airstrike by federal military. A result in being pulverized by an LGB was very likely.
As for Khlebnikov he has published an insulting interview with one of Chechen warlords in Forbes and said person promised to murder him since the very beginning. He should have take his security more seriously.
I expel an American journalist every morning.
The Radio Free broadcasts ceased to be pro-American sometime certainly before President GW Bush finished his double-term.
My suspicion is that the Ruskies were worried that he would stoke the flames of faggotry (like make pink journalistas in the media) or promote the cause of "cultural diversity" towards the jihadists living in Russia.
As a former card-carrying journalist, as opposed to being just a plain old journalist now, I can say that some US “journalists” were KGB assets of various types. Walter Duranty comes to mind though he later admitted that he deliberately withheld the truth in his NY Times pieces.
I.F. Stone - covert member of the Communist Party USA and Soviet asset of the KGB
Lionel Martin - CBS stringer - Havana, Old line CPUSA red
Charles R. Allen - CPUSA and Soviet disinformation specialist on war criminals from WW2. Used by NBC (I believe) to discredit European Nazi Hunters, the Klarsfelds. Seems Allen was getting his information on “war criminals” from the KGB and Stasi, if you read between the lines and talk to other Nazi hunters who knew about his disinformation writings in CPUSA publications such as “Jewish Currents”.
NY Times obit writer, Alden Whitman, admitted former CPUSA member who wrote very positive obituaries about dead CPUSA leaders and members, including Paul Robeson (Soviet asset and CP covert member)(dissected by Accuracy in Media about 1974) and Hugh Mulzac (National Maritime Union leader).
David Bacon - CPUSA member who wrote for a regional Newspaper Guild publication
Carl Bloice - former CPUSA reporter in Moscow for the Daily World and Peoples Daily/Weekly World. Recently the key public relations person for the California Nurses Association, one of the top unions supporting Obamacare.
David Axelrod - once a Chicago Tribune reporter, picked up by two Chicago communists, one a Party member - David S. Canter (as was his father - Henry Canter) and one a veteran CPUSA supporter (Don Rose), to head their far-left Oakland?-Hyde Park weekly pro-communist rag. They were his journalistic mentors, and voila, Axelrod ends up as one of Obama’s key advisors and propagandists.
Karen De Young - Wash. Post Foreign Service editor. Wrote glowing disinformation about the Marxist Sandinistas which made them out as the second coming of Christ, or George Washington. Never identified all three factions as hardcore Marxists, both Castroite and Maoist in orientation. Even communist sources admitted they all three factions were marxists.
Some WP writers are married to hardcore leftists, including one man who was a Cambodia genocide denier (William Goodfellow), at the exact time that the mass murder was well under way. He testified about it before Congress and was literally called a liar by Rep. Solarz (D-NY), who was certified liberal himself.
And there were/are, more. KGB fingers are suspected to have helped guide a couple other national writers but more proof is needed to verify it as true (Carl Stern, WP; Tad Szulc (his daughter was an SDS-type radical); Mr. WP; etc.
Some we will eventually learn the truth about. Others will always remain a mystery unless KGB files and FBI files are truly opened. Some may just be liberals; others, traitors.
Welcome to the wonderful world of subversion where often things are not as they seem.
Good question, I hadn't heard of these two before you mentioned them.
However after reviewing the circumstances surrounding their deaths in 1994 and 2004 respectively, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that the Russian government was trying to kill them.
In fact, at least in in the case of Paul Khlebnikov, the main suspects were opponents of the government.
Well, as soon as airforce is a branch of national military and military is a part of government, Elbaum counts as a victim of the government along with her own stupidity. As for Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov-not so much.
Touche! I should have specified government conspiracy, as opposed to simply the government.
I would bet Obama has killed more journalists than Putin has.
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