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by bgetch.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, a number of journalists operating in Russia have been killed and assaulted with little response from the government. Suppressing a free and open media reeks of the old Soviet empire and suspicions about Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, and his successor as president, Dmitry Medvedev, looking the other way (or worse) when dissenting journalists are harmed are widely held in the international community. A number of Russian and international Mafia and/or KGB-style hits are being met with outrage from Glasnost Defense Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, Center for Political Technologies and other groups focused on violence against journalists, Assaulted journalist Mikhail Beketov and murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya are two better known cases. What makes this effort powerful is the combination of the violence of the assaults; the specificity of the cause; the visual power of people protesting in Putin’s Russia; and the coalition of NGOs focused on very specific, finite events: the government’s investigation of these assaults. Wall Street Journal story follows. Read the rest of this entry »
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