AW: [governance] Kremlin eyes internet control ...

[Veni Markovski]

I'd like to use this mailing list, in one of my 
last emails here, to ask the participants to be 
extremely careful when they give interviews, esp. to the mass media.
One of the key issues is to ask the journalists 
to quote you exactly what you said, and not to 
interpret. And the second is, to make sure they 
know who you represent - yourself, your institution, or something else.
Such wrong quotes cause a lot of problems, and 
these are not limited to Russia, where - luckily 
- we have enough friends and colleagues, who 
understand when an error is being made.
Also, if something like that happens, make sure 
you send a request to the editors for 
corrections. I have had such experience with the 
International Herald Tribune, and I know they do 
publish corrections. It would be strange if The Guardian wouldn't do this.

best,
Veni

At 14:50 10.01.2008   +0100, KleinwДchter, Wolfgang wrote:
>Veni
>
>I am also disappointed from the article. The 
>author promised me to send quotations to me 
>before the publication. He did not. He 
>misunderstood a lot of details and mixed 
>different things to a muddy soup to justify his 
>main argument: The Kremlin wants to censor the 
>Internet. I urged him to be very precise and to 
>make a clear difference between real facts, 
>current politics and speculations by some groups 
>in the Russian government and elsewhere around 
>"options". I asked him also to quote ms as 
>university of aarhus and not as IGF.
>
>Unfortunately it is obviously risky to acept telephone interviews.
>

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