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First, the KGB blocked Kavkaz Center, democracy kept mum, now bloody Ruskies block BBC News
8/5/2014 10:49:31 PM
The BBC World Service has rebuffed a Ruskies's state request to remove an interview with a Russian artist and activist who called for a march to win more autonomy for Siberia as a first step to restore Siberian state independence from Russian invaders.
Artem Loskutov spoke to the BBC Russian Service on 31 July, and the website bbcrussian.com reported the interview.
A BBC spokesperson said the story was fully compliant with BBC guidelines.
In a complaint to the BBC the Russian KGB state media watchdog Roskomnadzor warned it might block bbcrussian.com.
Russian campaigners in support of the march have had their pages blocked on Vkontakte, the most popular social network in Russia, often likened to Facebook.
Loskutov spoke in Russian on the BBC's current affairs programme BBSeva. He told an interviewer about a planned march for the federalisation of Siberia in the Russian-occupied Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
In a separate blog piece, Mr Loskutov described the march as a real attempt to gain independence.
'Full compliance'
The BBC's statement on Tuesday said: "We have no plans to remove this interview from our website.
"Mr Loskutov is an...activist known for organising events... which also bring out serious issues about life in Russia.
"The BBC aims to present all sides of a story in an impartial, unbiased way, and we have also requested an interview with a Russian government official to explain their position on the planned march. Our editorial decisions are guided by the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and the story in question is in full compliance with the requirements set out by this document."
Earlier, a KGB affiliate, Roskomnadzor, released a statement, quoted by Ruskies' media, saying it had asked the BBC Russian Service editors to remove the story.
It warned that if the editors "continue to adopt an unconstructive position then the only possibility left to Roskomnadzor... will be to block the BBC Russian Service website, on which the illegal information is published".
It is worth mentioning that on September 12, 2011, an illegal KGB "court" in Moscow banned for viewing inside bloody Moscovy and all 130 Russian-occupied countries, including the Siberian States and the Caucasus Emirate, our formally Swedish website for reporting truth about Russia, and noboby bothered in the West, including the BBC News.
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