Journalism under attack
Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, the third most dangerous place in the world in the number of journalists killed in the last ten years while doing their job, after Iraq and Algeria.
Russian journalists mainly become victims of contract murders.
Eighteen journalists have been slain in Russia since 2000, with all but one case unsolved. Many more have been attacked, threatened or imprisoned. Most journalists in Russia suffered for their articles on corruption, human rights violations, and other “unlawful acts”. Under Vladimir Putin, the most popular TV networks have been taken over by the state, and their news operations have been neutered. Most big papers are sympathetic to the Kremlin or owned by Kremlin-allied business groups. Authorities both in Moscow and the provinces continue to use legal harassment to censor critical journalists and media outlets.
Why so many journalists killed in Russia?
In 2004 Anna Politkovskaya wrote: "We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial — whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.” © Antonio Tiso & Ilenia Piccioni
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