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...such harassment by the Russian authorities as Moscow has tried to enforce its own Pollyannaish spin on a military campaign designed for domestic political consumption. "Foreign reporters are typically detained briefly while Russian reporters are often detained at length," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Even reporters for state-owned television have been detained. This is the blunt edge of the news blockade." But Babitsky's case came to represent a new low in Moscow's contempt for the media when the Russian military announced, last Thursday, that it had turned the journalist over - supposedly at his own request...
...take the Russian government at its word, they handed over a Russian journalist to a group of hooded men Moscow regards as terrorists," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That means that neither his profession as a journalist nor his Russian citizenship meant anything to the Russian state. There's no question that the intended message to all reporters covering the war is that Moscow regards journalists who don't toe the line as part of the enemy...
...course an older generation of Russian reporters is quite accustomed to being treated as enemies of the state, because that was the way of the KGB. And acting president Putin, of course, is a career KGB official...
Stuckey, formerly of Long Beach, Calif., will arrive tonight in police custody on a flight from the state. HUPD officers will meet him at Logan International Airport and transport him to campus police headquarters, where he will be processed and then moved to Cambridge City Jail. The State Police and other law enforcement agencies have also been notified...
...February, Black History Month. History lives - in sometimes ugly ways. A few days ago in Oklahoma, a state commission recommended that some $12 million in reparations should be paid to survivors of the Tulsa race riot, which occurred 79 years ago, in late May, early June 1921. The riot, which may have been the bloodiest in American history, left as many as 300 black people dead. An armed white mob, inflamed by rumors that a black man had raped a white woman, looted and burned the thriving black community of Greenwood to the ground, destroying some 1,200 structures...