Posted on 04/29/2014 2:59:55 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Roman, one of the caretakers, came down and told me “get your things, you’re going.” But he didn’t actually give me my things and he led me upstairs and there was a cameraman from the Rossiya Television station which is a Kremlin backed state owned media. And this Russian reporter interviewed me. His name was Evgeny Popov. He wanted to know how I had been treated, what my political views were, he said I had been accused of being a Right Sector spy and asked if that was true. And then you know when I had told him how I had been treated he didn’t really want to dwell on that because that didn’t make for good news in Russia—that the pro-Russia forces were beating and taking people hostages.
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VICE news shows very well what is going on and Simon Ostrovsky is a great reporter. No wonder he got into the list of people to be silenced by the terrorists. His USA passport saved him there as a tortured corpse of a journalist from a less powerful nation would have turned up in a river somewhere.
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