The aggressive and illegal deportation of VGTRK's correspondent, Tamara Nersesyan, from the territory of Ukraine didn’t become a big surprise. In the Russian Foreign Ministry, what happened was described as a serious violation of Russian journalists' rights The OSCE also saw it as a restriction of media freedom.
In just three weeks, the second Vesti correspondent has undergone a harsh deportation from Ukraine. And this happened when five representatives of the Ukrainian media have permanent accreditation in our country. Our correspondent Maria Saushkina, who has also been deported recently, will tell you why Kiev is afraid of Russian journalists. That's how they deport from the territory of Ukraine. This video was recorded literally at the moment when I crossed the border. More precisely, when I was escorted out from Ukraine's territory, and offered to go on foot, at night, down the road, alone.
Tamara was deported for undermining the constitutional order. In fact, this means that she showed in her reports not what she should and that she contacted those whom she wasn’t allowed to. Though Ukrainian authorities banned Russian channels, they couldn’t ban satellites and the Internet. Out of powerlessness, SSU officers began to track down journalists. The charge was that I represented a threat to the territorial integrity and security of Ukraine. The summary of the threats: after the release of our stories, Russian citizens massively wanted to go to the war in Donbass. That's what they accused me of.
Demonstrative deportation of Russian journalists and treating them like criminals has become familiar to the representatives of the SSU. They send journalists out without their belongings, take away their passports, twist their hands, interrogate without presenting documents, and without attorneys. I can’t say said that this work, for example, was done by the SSU and this one — by gangsters. For example, Buzina was killed by bandits, some extremists, but this was done by the SSU. No. This is the same group, and the developments are the same. There is a special range where SSU officers, bandits, and killers, who are preparing these special operations. Here it is.
The range was caught on video by Sokolov’s informers for $5,000. Here, groups of extremists are trained, who then, like chain dogs, attack the unwanted with threats, both local Ukrainian journalists and the Russian ones. Yaroslav Yevtushenko, a Ministry of Internal Affairs employee in Dnepropetrovsk, is in charge of the entire training process. He, according to some data, receiving rewards from criminals, turns a blind eye to the drug trafficking in the city and covers up prostitution.
This information was provided in detail by Sokolov's informers, Sergei Sergiyenko and Roman Shevchenko. They closely cooperate with the SSU and the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In Russia, Ukrainian journalists work in different conditions. They are given accreditation, and whatever they say, there can be no deportation.
Sergei Rulyov works in Rostov-on-Don for Slavyanskie Novosti. What happened didn’t surprise him at all. They left the constitutional field, while using the armed forces of their own state against their own people. This is a violation of Article 17 of the Constitution. They arrest their own journalists, put them in jail, present them with some far-fetched accusations, which no one can understand.
Five Ukrainian journalists with accreditation for three years constantly work in Russia: Yulia Kryuchkova, Sergei Rulyov, Roman Tsymbalyuk, Konstantin Kevorkyan, and Sergei Kichigin. They are free in what they write and say what they think is right, having their own point of view, even if it doesn’t always coincide with the official position.
Another 24 journalists of the Ukrainian media received temporary accreditation for three months. Detentions of Russian journalists, interrogations with bias, and demonstrative deportation by the SSU. All this somehow doesn’t fit into the definition of a European state, which the Ukrainian authorities proclaimed their country. Journalists from Ukraine, working in Russia, feel at ease, freely write and say everything they want. They, unlike Russians in Ukraine, are given accreditation here. And it's hard to imagine what a fuss they would have made in the Western press if Ukrainian journalists had been persecuted in Russia.
