Moscow expects OSCE's impartial assessment of journalists’ rights violations in Ukraine

Moscow expects the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to give a quick and impartial assessment of the violation of journalists’ rights in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

“The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned with restrictions imposed on media freedom and the violation of journalists’ rights in Ukraine. Media workers come under psychological pressure and are subject to violence in Kiev and other parts of Ukraine,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed, noting that a correspondent of the Russia 24 news television channel, Artyom Kol, had received a death threat.

“A reward worth 10,000 hryvnias was offered for his head,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Several Russian media outlets became victims of hacker attacks early in March, including the Russia Today English-language TV channel (on March 2) and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily (on March 7).

Besides, several Russian TV channels such as RTR-Planeta, Channel One and NTV Mir have disappeared from Ukraine’s cable television network on March 4.