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U.S. Envoy to Russia Accuses TV Station of Spying on Him
By ELLEN BARRYPublished: March 30, 2012
MOSCOW — The State Department on Friday formally expressed concern to the Russian Federation about the security of its ambassador to Moscow, Michael A. McFaul, who has complained that crews from state-controlled television have gained access to his schedule by hacking his e-mail or his phones. Enlarge This Image
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The move came after Mr. McFaul engaged in a five-minute debate with a reporter from NTV — a station that has produced reports critical of the United States in recent months — after she approached him with a cameraman on the sidewalk on his way to an appointment. Increasingly irritated, he said they were behaving “as if this is a wild country.” He complained that camera crews have ambushed him repeatedly, and he asked how they had learned about his meeting that day, which was not a matter of public record. “This is against the Geneva Convention, if you are going to receive my information from my telephone or from my BlackBerry,” Mr. McFaul said, as Lev A. Ponomaryov, an opposition leader he was meeting, tried to pull him inside. A few hours later, via Twitter, he commented, “I respect press right to go anywhere & ask any question. But do they have a right to read my e-mail and listen to my phone?” Mr. McFaul, who arrived in January, received harsh treatment from Russian television starting on his second day of work, when a prime-time commentator announced that he had been sent to foment revolution. NTV, which is owned by the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, has broadcast a series of films asserting that Washington orchestrated antigovernment demonstrations; the last report prompted calls to boycott the station. Opposition figures cheered Mr. McFaul’s defiant reaction on Friday, with the prominent blogger Aleksei Navalny remarking: “Go Mike! One for all!” But Pavel Gusev, the head of a media commission at the Public Chamber, a Kremlin-sponsored civil society umbrella group, said the camera crew had not broken any law. “It would have been different if attempts had been made to look into his private life or tap his conversations, which is illegal,” Mr. Gusev said to the Interfax news service. “As to journalists’ wish to learn more about a public figure — an ambassador, a patriarch or a politician — it is their lawful right.” NTV is known for exposés of the Kremlin’s enemies that its general director has acknowledged often feature surveillance video acquired from law enforcement. But a spokeswoman for the company said on Friday that “NTV’s employees obviously do not hack into anyone’s phones or read e-mails.” “The ubiquity of NTV can be explained by its broad network of informants, which is well known to every public figure in this country,” said the spokeswoman, Maria Bezborodova. The station released a statement saying it has been shooting video of Mr. McFaul for its archives “without any particular goal.” A State Department spokesman had played down Mr. McFaul’s comments about surveillance when asked about them on Thursday. “I believe he was simply asking a rhetorical question commenting on the fact that wherever he goes in Moscow, he’s finding a presence of — large media presence, some of it hostile, and he’s wondering how they’re getting word about his schedule,” said the spokesman, Mark Toner. “I don’t think he’s directing it at the journalists or at the media itself.” Mr. McFaul also tried to soften his televised remarks, writing on Twitter that “I misspoke in bad Russian. Did not mean to say ‘wild country.’ Meant to say NTV’s actions ‘wild.’ I greatly respect Russia.”
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