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- Head of Sputnik Turkey freed after brief detention, Russian agency’s 3 journalists released after questioning
The head of the Turkish branch of Sputnik was released after being briefly detained amid searches at the Istanbul office of the Russian news agency. Three employees of the outlet were also freed after questioning by Ankara police. - OSCE condemns harassment of Russian agency journalists in Turkey amid reported detention over ‘professional activity’The OSCE’s media freedom spokesman condemned the harassment of three employees of Sputnik Turkey in Ankara. Contact with the journalists was lost as they went to the police after being accosted by nationalists.
- Minsk pact on Ukraine ‘must be implemented’ to ‘build trust,’ PM of Albania, who also holds OSCE chair, tells RTAlbanian prime minister and OSCE chairperson-in-office Edi Rama has said that the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict “need to be implemented” in their current form in order to “build trust” before they can be reviewed.
- OSCE media freedom rep calls on UK not to extradite Assange due to ‘excessive’ US prison sentenceThe UK should not extradite Julian Assange, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has argued, because he faces an excessive prison sentence in the US and his publications were in the public interest.
- Moscow calls for collective security ‘like OSCE for Europe’ to be implemented in Persian Gulf region – LavrovRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has urged Persian Gulf nations to work toward the creation of a joint security mechanism, noting that Moscow was concerned about the tense standoff in the region.
- OSCE 'closely following' case of news agency Sputnik, whose journalists face pressure from Estonian policeThe OSCE is monitoring a situation regarding Sputnik Estonia news agency, whose journalists have been threatened with criminal prosecution by local police unless they terminate their employment contracts, the organization told RT.
- NATO 'broke away' from intl law, lost its legitimacy – ex-OSCE Parliamentary Assembly VP to RTNATO broke away from international law and risks "collapse" or a conflict that will "destroy Europe," if it does not change its modus operandi, Willy Wimmer, the former vice president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, told RT.
- ‘Paris filters the information’: Lavrov scolds France for its treatment of Russian-funded mediaFrench officials are disregarding the OSCE rules on media freedom by labeling Moscow-funded outlets as propaganda vehicles and banning them from official events, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
- Europe should abandon US ‘war track’, aim for multipolar world – ex-OSCE Assembly VPAn EU army would not help solve the continent’s security issues and instead may exacerbate the global “war track” created by the US at the end of the Cold War, Willy Wimmer, the former vice-head of the OSCE Assembly, told RT.
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