"Concernant les medias, les mauvaisent nouvelles tombent tous les jours. Le regime est desormais determiné a utiliser des accusations infondeées pour inculper d'honnetes journalistes et professeurs de journalisme. La directrice d'Internews Russie, renommé recemment Educated Media Foundation, Manana Aslamazyan, risque plusieurs annees de prison pour etre entrée en Russie avec quelques centaines d'euros de plus que la somme autorisée. Elle est de toute bonne foi, mais les autorités russes l'accusent deja de ' blanchiment d'argent'. Son centre de formation des journalistes, financé notamment par un programme Tacis europeen et la Fondation Ford, jouait un role essentiel dans la revalorisation des medias regionaux. Il a tout simplement cessé d'exister. ..."

English Translation: "As for the media, bad news comes daily. The regime is now determined to use unfounded accusations to indict honest journalists and journalism teachers. Manana Aslamazyan, the director of Internews Russia, recently renamed the Educated Media Foundation, faces several years in jail for having entered Russia with a few hundred euros more than the authorized limit. She is entirely aboveboard, but the Russian authorities are already accusing her of 'money laundering.' Her journalism training center, funded notably by a European Tacis [EU] program and the Ford Foundation, played an essential role in upgrading regional media. It has simply ceased to exist. ..."