Glasnost Defence Foundation Digest No. 573

8 June 2012 Glasnost Defence Foundation  Story of the week Cost of word: Journalist receives scull trauma and nearly twenty knife wounds (Moscow) Event of the week Court ruling shows beating a reporter is “affordable” (Yekaterinburg, Urals) Russia  1. Journalist gets three ribs broken (Yekaterinburg, Urals) 2. Administration afraid of journalist? (Saratov Region, Volga) 3. Bailiff in bullet-proof vest and with handcuffs called to attend court sentence reading (Khabarovsk, Far East). See Digests 531, 569-570 4. Photographer will get compensation for violated copyright (Voronezh, Central Russia) Glasnost defence foundation Conflicts registered by GDF Monitoring Service on RF territory in May 2012 Our contributors Administration reshuffle fails to put an end to “information war” (Omsk Region, Siberia) Read more