"The correspondents from the Zvezda television channel, Yevgeny Davydov and Nikita Konashenkov, were released in Dnipropetrovsk on June 16 and are returning to Moscow. This is joyful news!" the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued in Moscow on Monday.
"The release is the result of the persistent efforts of all our structures, with the active participation and support by Russian mass media outlets," the statement said. "We insist that Ukraine must stop the unlawful practice of arresting journalists and ensure their right to free and objective coverage of the events in any country," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Meanwhile the journalists' health condition leaves much to be desired.
[voiceofrussia.com]
16/6/14
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The captured reporters of the Zvezda television channel were beaten up after detention, said Krasnaya Zvezda media holding director, Alexei Pimanov....
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"The guys were beaten up. Our correspondent Yevgeny Davydov now suffers from partial loss of hearing," Pimanov told Interfax on Monday evening.
"Neither a ransom, nor a swap was involved. We just rescued the guys," Pimanov said. Correspondent Yevgeny Davydov and sound engineer Nikita Konashenkov were detained by the Ukrainian law enforcement people in the Dnipropetrovsk region on June 14. It emerged on June 15 that the journalists were being held in the justice department building in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Zvezda television management got in touch with one of the journalists by phone.
The Zvezda reporters arrived in Ukraine on an official mission after producing their reporter's cards. Their mission was to last until June 14. On June 16, representatives of the Dnepropetrovsk regional state administration handed the reporters over to an aid to Russian naval attache Eduard Belashov in a procedure at the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration's headquarters attended by more than 30 journalists. It was a second detention of Zvezda reporters in Ukraine of late.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_16/Zvezda-TV-journalists-were-beaten-up-after-detention-reporters-chief-9997/