Dina Oyun Explains her Position on the Federal TV Channel

Also, against Dina Oyun, editor-in-chief of the "Tuva-Online" agency, who is subject of a suit for asking an "incorrect" question by the chief of the Tuvan Central Election Committee, the election "head" in Tuva, Sholban Mongush, told the journalists at a press conference devoted to the results of the second round of Tuvan Parliamentary elections held on June, 23, right before Putin's press conference. The host of the "Vesti Nedeli" TV program commented on this reaction of the local authorities as being a usual thing on a regional level in Russia, this time receiving a federal coverage. On this program, Dina Oyun answered the correspondent's question; "Are you afraid of being put into jail?" by saying: "I don't think that filing this suit against me the local CEC (Central Election Committee) really meant to put me into prison, it was rather a kind of a preventive measure for others not to ask such questions to the President of Russia. According to their thinking they should probably be approved by some of the republic authorities." The host of the program spoke of this strange reaction of local power in negative terms.

Interesting that this situation with the Tuvan journalist inspired Exile weekly to include Dina into a baseball cards set alongside with Putin, Fradkov. Khodorkovski, Abramovitsch and others.