Media News - Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Publisher appeals to Medvedev

The publisher of the muckraking weekly magazine The New Times has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to grant Russian citizenship to journalist Natalya Morar, a Moldovan national barred from entering Russia. Morar, 24, was refused entry into the country in December just days after publishing a story that claimed the presidential administration used a secret multimillion-dollar fund to finance parties during the State Duma elections. Authorities later said she was denied entry because she was a threat to national security. In an open letter published in Monday's issue of The New Times, publisher Irena Lesnevskaya asked Medvedev to give Morar a passport and 'put an end to this lawlessness.' Morar applied for Russian citizenship last July after graduating from Moscow State University, Lesnevskaya wrote. By law, authorities should have granted or rejected Morar's application by April, but there has been no official response, she wrote. Morar is one of more than two dozen journalists refused entry over the past eight years. (Moscow Times)

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