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Medvedev defends freedom of speech and “telling the truth”
Published: 09 December, 2009, 18:23
Edited: 14 December, 2009, 11:43
During a media forum in Moscow, the Russian president reminded journalists of their duty to “tell the truth” while providing some interesting observations from his trip to the United States.
well i think that those 3 can learn A LOT MORE from this article than Russia
Marzipan6 certainly knows how to exercise his freedom of speech. It is very enlightening that people will demand free speech in today's ever restricting and controlling news media. People have to demand free speech, or they will eventually lose it altogether. The greatest enemy of potential dictators is people willing to exercise there freedom of speech. Dictators can be great orators with lovely personalities, but always with a secret agenda and a dark side. Only freedom of speech can expose the criminal intent of such office holders. Good job Marzipan6. Keep speaking your mind and providing the facts.
The same Medvedev who is here reported as championing freedom of speech established a law a few months ago criminilizing any interpretation of history that contradicts the Kremlin’s own line. Which would be bad enough even if the Kremlin’s line was true, but in reality its view of key points of Soviet history contradicts that of all scholarship the world over, as well as contradicting the living memory of those who experienced the events.. When Medvedev stops claiming that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania commited mass national suicide in 1940 to willingly and legally join Stalin’s Soviet Union, and rescinds the law that threatens criminal sanctions against those who claim otherwise, we can begin believing that he is serious about truth and freedom of speech. Until then we cannot.