NTV recalls camera crew from Japan

MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) - Russia's television company NTV has
decided to recall its journalist Anton Volsky and the camera crew from
Japan. They covered the events that followed the earthquake and the
tsunami on March 11. All the other Russian television channels are
planning to keep their special correspondents in Japan.
"The First Channel has two film crews operating in Japan. At the
moment, we are not planning to recall them because there's no threat to
their health and first-hand information is important for our audiences,"
Larisa Krymova, the First Channel's director for public relations, told
Itar-Tass.
"All our journalists are equipped with radiation warning devices.
According to their reports, the radiation level in places where they are
working is normal," the public relations director told Itar-Tass.
Krymova added that the TV crews would rotate frequently because of
hard working conditions.
"We will take emergency measures if any force majeure circumstances
emerge," Krymova went on to say.
In turn, the press secretary of the news programs direction of the
Russia TV Channel Elena Chuvilina said that the channel was not planning
to recall its TV crew from Japan.
In the meantime, Aeroflot, Russia's major aircraft carrier, will make
an additional flight from Moscow to Tokyo and back to Moscow on Thursday.
The Boeing-767 will evacuate Russian nationals from Japan, which continues
to be hit by powerful earthquakes and nuclear power plant accidents, a
company source told Itar-Tass.
The Boeing-767 has 30 seats in business class and 184 in the economy
class. Only business class tickets will be available in free sale. Tickets
to the economy class will be sold at a special tariff to the family
members of employees of Russian organizations operating in Japan.
"In view of the situation unfolding in Japan, it was decided that the
families of employees of Russian institutions operating in Japan,
including the embassy in Tokyo, general consulates and a trade mission,
should temporarily leave Japan presumably on March 18," the Russian
Foreign Ministry said.
The staff of Russian diplomatic missions and other Russian state
organizations will stay in Japan.