An important new alert from the Committee to Protect Journalists:

Station faces criminal charges for slang use of Putin’s name New York, January 10, 2008—Prosecutors in the northeastern Russian city of Vladimir have opened a criminal case against local television station TV-6 Vladimir for allegedly insulting President Vladimir Putin in a broadcast. The station’s staff has not yet been charged but, if indicted and convicted, they would face up to one year of corrective labor.