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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Polish Magazine Faces Extremism Charges

Moscow prosecutors may slap extremism charges against a Polish literary magazine in a case that threatens to strain Polish-Russian relations just a month before Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with his Polish counterpart for a historic meeting.

The Novaya Polsha magazine, which is published in the Russian language in Poland and distributed in Russia, has been accused of carrying extremist materials by Stanislav Kunyayev, the nationalist-minded editor-in-chief of Nash Sovremennik, a Russian literary magazine.

“I think they are doing everything possible to distort the history of our relationship,” Kunyayev told The Moscow Times on Tuesday.

Read more:http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/polish-magazine-faces-extremism-charges/401263.html