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Center for Civil Society International has received the following message
about efforts to intimidate a correspondent of one of Russia's most
courageous and independent news services, Express Khronika.
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Subject: Special report
THREATS MADE TO THE LIFE OF EXPRESS CHRONICLE'S KAZAN
CORRESPONDENT ALEXANDER POSTNOV
Special report, Thursday 13 June 1997
Over the last few months Alexander Postnov, Express Chronicle's
correspondent in Kazan (Tatarstan), has been gathering material for an
article about the activities of the joint-stock aviation company
"Aerostan", the airplanes of which have been transporting weapons for
the Rabani regime in Afghanistan. Pilots from the company spent many
months as prisoners of the Taliban forces before they were able to
escape.
On Tuesday this week, 11 June, at 7.55 p.m. Postnov received a
threatening phone call at home, warning him that he would face major
unpleasantnesses if he published any article on the subject. Half an
hour later an unknown caller rang again and said: "This is going to be
the biggest mistake of your life. We won't warn you again."
The newspaper's chief editor, Alexander Podrabinek, has applied to the
Russian Federation Procurator-General's Office to immediately take
effective measures to protect the life of Alexander Postnov.
Alexander Postnov, a biographical note:
Alexander P. Postnov, b. 1950 in Svobodny, a town in the Amur Region.
Went to secondary school in a small town 35 kms from Kazan. In 1967
attended the foreign languages department of Kazan teachers' training
college, and worked for 18 months in a school before going to Moscow
where he worked as a translator for the VDNKh exhibition centre and in
Gidroproekt. Returned to Kazan and in 1979 began to work for local
papers, "Evening Kazan" and "Soviet Tatarstan". He also began working
for "Express Chronicle" and in 1990 left "Soviet Tatarstan" newspaper.
Since 1994 has been a member of the American national association
of reporters and publishers, working as an investigative journalist.
Married with two children.
In the case, you should contact Alexander Postnov at: tel: (7 8432) 36
65 04; home address: Russia 420015 Kazan, ul.Gogolya, d.21 kv. 20
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