Authorities are dissatisfied with free press

Vladimir Putin’s assistant and press secretary in Chechnya S. Yastrzembski in his interview to the TV channel ORT reproached a number of Russian mass media in their biased attitude to the Chechen war. He mentioned as the examples the TV channel NTV and the newspapers ‘Novaya gazeta’ and ‘Noviye izvestiya’. According to his words, ‘it is obvious that the attitude of these newspapers to the actions of the federal powers in Chechnya is a priori negative.