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Na Varuha človekovih pravic Republike Slovenije (Varuh) se je obrnil pobudnik, ki je menil, da so kršene njegove pravice do obveščenosti in do...
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Priporočilo: A complainant turned to the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia (Ombudsman) who pointed out that the media coverage of the war in Ukraine 'only reports on one side of this tragedy; that he tried to access Russian portals and media multiple times, but that proved to be impossible; that he then turned to the editor-in-chief of the Slovenian National Television, the Minister of foreign affairs, but only received an answer from the Agency for Communication Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (AKOS), which explained that Russian programmes are blocked as part of the 'EU Regulations as measures versus Russia as part of the sanctions.' The complainant opposed this from the perspective of media freedom and the right to information and deemed that all sides of the conflict must be listened to, even though Russia is the aggressor in this case, and allow citizens access to all information and not just information that conforms to current politics. In his opinion, this represents a violation of his right to information and the formulation of his own opinion on the war in Ukraine. He wanted the Ombudsman to 'initiate all necessary procedures for the annulment of said measures and to call on the Slovenian politics (government and National Assembly) to distance itself from the EU Regulation as mentioned above.''