Posted on 04/22/2014 10:15:39 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Ostrovsky's last two tweets, sent April 21, are about the "mayor" threatening to remove an Associated Press journalist from a press conference. He has not tweeted since Monday's press conference.
His most recent video dispatch was posted April 20.
"Sloviansk pro-Russia 'mayor' threatens to throw journalist out for "provocative" question about former mayor being held under guard," Ostrovsky last tweeted while covering the press conference. "Now he's not letting reporters leave the press conference: 'you'll go as you came in. In a group.' That's one way to guarantee coverage."
(Excerpt) Read more at mashable.com ...
Saw this on Twitter, but there are conflicting reports.
Seems he may now be “embedded” with the pro-Russians.
“Seems he may now be “embedded” with the pro-Russians.”
So an anti-Putin journalist has “embedded” himself with a Putin backed insurgency group that’s being actively supported by Russian special forces, that aren’t officially there according to the Russian government. Yeah...no.
The FR Putinistas will be along shortly to ‘explain’ to us how this was really the fault of the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime.
“Saw this on Twitter, but there are conflicting reports.”
“Seems he may now be “embedded” with the pro-Russians.”
That is reported to be false propaganda by Ostrovky’s organization, who are trying to get support from the State Department. The source of the “conflicting reports” is the same man resposnible for unlawfully detaining or holding hostage Ostrovsky and a number of other journalists he is attempting to censor and/or intimidate; as reported in the same Mashable article:
Sloviansk’s self-appointed “People’s Mayor,” Vachislav Ponomaryov
Vice news?
Whew!
Glad Joe is safe!
These moron Russians are acting like Al Qaeda. Kidnapping and giving guns to bus station drunks is no way to get the local populace on your side. It seems all Putin can do is create anarchy in Ukraine. Nobody wants to be ruled by terrorists.
In fact I’ve seen all the VIce News coverage about Ukraine and it was nowhere near favorable to the Eastern side. It doesn’t justify detention though.
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