Comments on: Media Freedom in the Former Soviet Union /region/europe/media-freedom-former-soviet-union/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anna Pivovarchuk /region/europe/media-freedom-former-soviet-union/#comment-27242 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:10:31 +0000 #comment-27242 In reply to CCR.

Dear CCR,

I hope you noticed that the KGB agents mentioned in the article operate in Minsk, Belarus. By claiming yourself to be an ‘educated reader’, I am surprised that you are unaware of the fact that the Belarusian security services have retained the acronym KGB. Your time would have been better spent in doing a basic fact check instead of accusing our writers and editorial team of incompetence. Just in case you still have doubts: .

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With best wishes,
Anna Pivovarchuk, Culture Editor

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By: CCR /region/europe/media-freedom-former-soviet-union/#comment-27215 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:22:05 +0000 #comment-27215 “day just before New Year’s in 2010”
“and within minutes KGB agents descended on the café to arrest him and his two friends”

The author is unaware of the fact that KGB ceased to exist by 2010.
The whole article is a pure figment of the author’s imagination, thereupon. Everything in it sounds fanciful and a clever work of fiction, devoid of any clear and verifiable facts — especially for an author who cannot even verify the existence and/or demise of KGB and USSR by 2010, this is a nice piece of fiction and imagination at best.

Shame on FairObserver to publish such articles on its forum, and thus reducing its own credibility and integrity, and also makes educated readers wonder and doubt about the quality of all the articles on the site.
Letting such lies being published on Fair-Observer makes it seem more like UnFair-Blind.

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