There are lots of links, but they all are in Russian, regretful and useless for you... This issue isn't that interesting to me either to dig comprehending info, sorry. In a word - this small spot of land poses great interest for very influential people who would like to set a sort of offshore customs toll zone there and rake the unbelievable income. The Finnish company is like the small fly sitting on their golden mountain. If there would have been Russian, not foreign company, they would brush it off without too much noise. But that company is Finnish and protest of Finns will attract the international attention and cast much daylight on there. IMHO, this is that very case when the care for global commercial image will help to affect on internal corruption.

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed alarm at the detention of activists intending to protest against the Russian government. "

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Russia that any action taken against an individual EU state would be considered action against the whole bloc.

"It is very important if you want to have close co-operation to understand that the EU is based on principles of solidarity," he said.



BBC NEWS | Europe | EU-Russian talks end in acrimony

"7 Radio Journalists Quit Jobs in Protest"
By Svetlana Osadchuk
Staff Writer
Seven journalists have resigned from Russian News Service after new management censored their reports about a Dissenters' March and a dispute with Estonia, among other things, several of the journalists said Friday.
Russian News Service -- a leading private broadcast news agency that provides news to the country's largest radio station, Russkoye Radio, and other partner stations -- is run by general director Alexander Shkolnik and editor Vsevolod Neroznak, both of whom joined the agency from Channel One state television.

Reporters started leaving after Shkolnik fired editor Mikhail Baklanov last month and replaced him with Neroznak. Deputy editor Maria Makeyeva, who anchored morning broadcasts, and Dmitry Mangalov, who anchored the 5 p.m. news, left first, followed days later by Anastasia Izyumskaya and Artyom Khan. The latest three -- Olga Shipsha, Lyubov Shirizhik and Margarita Bondarenko -- tendered their resignations Thursday.

Shipsha declined to discuss her resignation, and Shirizhik and Bondarenko could not be reached for comment. But Khan and Izyumskaya said censorship and pressure had prompted all seven resignations.

Khan said management had accused him of siding with Estonia in his coverage of protests held by the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth group outside the country's Moscow embassy in late April and early May. The protests were over Estonia's decision to relocate a World War II memorial in Tallinn."

7 Radio Journalists Quit Jobs in Protest

The fundrising for the publications of anti-Russian articles is very difficult in Russia. Nobody will spend one's money to support the journalists who would create the stuff against the natural patriotic trend. Because this is equal to the total losing of respect and audience. If you will release the anti-Russian articles in Russia you simply lose your audience and consequently money. What we really need it is more professional patriotic critics. The considerations of the Estonian side and of the all other foreign countries we learn in the Estonian and other national respectable media of the world - they represent their understandable interests and we are full aware of them..

Ah, OK.
The forceful claiming of the property began because Finnish company wanted to make very clear cut that they would get the property back after Russians had used it for the time-span of year and-a-half.
If I reacall, the company building the pipeline in the Gulf of Finland is the one who wanted to rent it from the Finns who have 50-year contract of the spot.

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En uneksi. I do not dream.

And who in Russia decide, whether publications are anti-Russian or pro-Kremlin. Putin's KGB ?
And these journalists who write anti-Russian publications are just killed like
A.Politkovskaja and many others.
Thats new Putin's (KGB) -Russia ORDER.

journalists killed TOP 20
1. Iraq: 98
2. Algeria: 60
3. Russia: 44
4. Colombia: 39
5. Philippines: 32
6. India: 22
7. Bosnia: 19

Statistics: Journalists Killed

That's Russian style "democracy". Every year Kremlin budget
millions dollars to encourage such "democracy" and propaganda in Baltic states.
By the way, Kremlin also budget propaganda in the internet forums.

That is statistics for 15 years, including the time of war in Chechnya. Most of those journalist were killed during the rule of "great democrat" Yeltsin.

That's a lie. Such unproven posts are example of schizophrenia or propaganda.

Really? Well, and how much did they pay you for the posts to get Lithuania despised in forums?

That's simple. Readers do decide. Russian readers don't like the anti-Russian publications, Estonian readers don't like the anti-Estonian ones and so on. Besides Putin and FSB there live lots of other people in Russia who read the newspapers. I utterly hope that I mistake regarding your case, and it is not the Lithuanian president and the Lithuanian state security services who decide for you what is Russian propaganda and what is not.

Journalists Killed in Russia: The Truth Can Be Dangerous - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

"The Truth Can Be Dangerous
The list of influential journalists murdered during Vladimir Putin's presidency in Russia keeps growing."

Journalism in Russia Becomes as Dangerous as War - Kommersant Moscow

"Journalism in Russia Becomes as Dangerous as War
Russia has the second position in the world in the number of journalists killed in the last ten years while doing their job, according to the report of the International News Safety Institute (INSI). The first place is given to Iraq, where war was going on quite recently. Russian journalists mainly become victims of contract murders, says the report.
INSI’s report claims that nearly 1,000 journalists died in the world between January 1996 and June 2006. Only one quarter of them died during wars and military actions. Iraq became the most dangerous country for mass media workers, killing 138 of them.

Russia is the second most dangerous, with 88 killed journalists. Columbia is the third. The list includes Iran, Pakistan, Ukraine, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Guatemala.

INSI called on the governments of those countries not to “allow murders and other forms of violence, and guarantee that the criminals do not go off unpunished”.

According to the report, most journalists in Russia suffered for their articles on corruption, human rights violations, and other “unlawful acts”. The most common cause of journalists’ deaths in Russia is contract murders, according to INSI."

"The Austrian embassy was involved in scheduling an interview with the Russian president on Austrian ORF television, however, that interview has been cancelled because of “unfriendly reportage before the state visit,” according to the station.
The Austrian television channel had announced that, along with the interview with Putin, there would be coverage of conditions in Chechnya. “They just told us that the coverage in tendentious and because of that it would be improper to give an interview,” ORF Moscow bureau chief Suzanne Scholl explained."

Putin Tangles with Austrian TV before Visit - Kommersant Moscow

kanas, you cite Russian newspapers to compromise Russia, and after that you say, that there is no freedom of press in Russia?

Only some journalists write what they want, but they risk their career or their life.

"7 Radio Journalists Quit Jobs in Protest
By Svetlana Osadchuk
Staff Writer
Seven journalists have resigned from Russian News Service after new management censored their reports about a Dissenters' March and a dispute with Estonia, among other things, several of the journalists said Friday.

Russian News Service -- a leading private broadcast news agency that provides news to the country's largest radio station, Russkoye Radio, and other partner stations -- is run by general director Alexander Shkolnik and editor Vsevolod Neroznak, both of whom joined the agency from Channel One state television."
7 Radio Journalists Quit Jobs in Protest