His Excellency Aslan Maskhadov President Grozny Chechen Republic Russian Federation Vienna, 30 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute strongly condemns the kidnapping of a correspondent working for the Itar-Tass news agency. According to our sources, unidentified armed men broke into the house of Said Isayev, a Chechen who has worked for the Russian […]

His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 29 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Baton Haxhiu, editor-in-chief of the leading Kosovo Albanian newspaper, Koha Ditore. We are informed that apart from Haxhiu, four other prominent Albanians, including Fehmi Agani, a member […]

His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 24 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the banning of Radio B92 in Belgrade. We are informed that Radio B92, the country’s leading independent radio station ,was shut down […]

His Excellency Boris Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation Moscow Russia Vienna, 23 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the serious threat to freedom of expression and opinion in Russia posed by the passing of a bill which would tighten state control over the country’s broadcast media by […]