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NEW YORK, (openPR) 9 August 2005

In a survey of the Russian news agency Novosti among U.S. subscribers conducted to determine the daily e-newsletter Johnson Russian mail List (JRL), 87% of respondents their disapproval during the ABC broadcast an interview expressed with Chechen terrorists Shamil Basayev.

Only 13% of respondents believe that the 23 minutes interview broadcast on national television in the United States by “the public’s right to know, is justified.”

it an act of “reckless and negligent performance of double standards,” and 12% as “a direct cooperation with the terrorists, to give the speaker a gate and receive their instructions financing.”

director of the Discovery of the Russian travel agency Marc David Miller said that “without direct cooperation with the terrorists, the interview with Basayev has provided for a Western audience, some on foot, to think the interview Clock In spite of all the blood on his hands Basayev had justification for his actions (think similar to that bin Laden killed 3,000 people in one day, to gain your attention for his cause). “

Miller went on to say that the coverage was unbalanced – there was no mention in the program of Basayev’s invasion of Dagestan and little explanation for his terrorist past.

three quarters of respondents said that the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation was not renewed for the accreditation of ABC an appropriate response. Thirteen percent have supported the move as insufficient and would “close the branch in Russia and the staff distribute] ABC [by Russia.” Twenty-five percent of respondents gave the Russian authorities should have ignored ABC broadcast the interview.

expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Babitsky on the payroll of the U.S. (as an employee of Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe, financed by Congress). “I would be a scandal to be incompatible with the spirit of the global coalition against terrorism,” said Vlad Sobell, senior economist at Daiwa Institute of Research of.

At a press conference by the U.S. State Department on 2 August, Tom Casey, spokesman for the department said that ABC and other media sources should be allowed freedom of expression and be able to decide what to report.

The survey was conducted August 3 to 5. JRL subscribers include members from academia, government, business and journalists in the Russian-American relations. The service has more than 6,000 subscribers. The survey results are based on the first 50 respondents.

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