MOSCOW, October 25 - RAPSI. A magistrate in Volgograd has found a reporter and a cameraman from the major national channel, NTV, guilty of disorderly conduct for conducting an interview with a pig, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

Correspondent Andrei Sukhanov and cameraman Daniil Korotun, who were shooting a story about the African swine fever virus in the Volgograd Region, were detained at the regional veterinary committee on September 6, after showing up for an interview with a live pig and then running from office to office with the snorter, while shooting.

Committee chairman, Galina Alikova, said that the journalists behaved provocatively and aggressively, that they pushed the piglet in committee employees faces, demanding to know whether they felt pity for it. The reporters allegedly called the office workers pig killers.

The police were called by committee employees and the journalists were taken to the police station. The pig was tested for African swine fever virus then put down and burnt.

The police officer arrested the journalists for disorderly conduct after they allegedly disrupted the work of the committees employees.

The judge ruled for the plaintiffs and fined both journalists 1,000 rubles (about $32).