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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9283

11 October 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/russia

10/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - Concerned by the “threat to freedom of expression in today's Russia”, following the assassination last Sunday of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the president of the ALDE group, Graham Watson from Britain, has written to the Russian ambassador to the EU, Vladimir A. Chizhov, requesting a visa to meet the former Head of the Youkos company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who he regards as a “political prisoner of the Russian Federation” imprisoned in Siberia....

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