Staunton, September 4 – Journalists specializing on ethnic issues must compensate for declines since 1991 in the number and quality of interactions among people of different nationalities in post-Soviet Russia, and because there are few such journalists in Moscow, that places an enormous responsibility on journalists in the non-Russian republics. That is the message Margarita Lyange, the head of the Russian Federation’s Guild of Inter-Ethnic Journalism and advisor to the editor of Radio Russia, delivered in the course of an extensive interview published in the new issue of "Finnougria,” a magazine directed at the Finno-Ugric nations in Russia (www.finnougoria.ru/periodika/20810/). And this is the task that such journalists, the vast majority of whom are women because of the lower pay and lower status of such positions now, must undertake in order ...
Staunton, August 23 –Ekho Moskvy, an island of "freedom in an unfree country,” is now able to celebrate its 20th anniversary, its chief editor says, because it makes Russia look good to Moscow’s Western partners, because its radio audience is too small to affect elections, and because it serves as an alternative source of reliable information for the powers that be. In an interview published in the current issue of "New Times,” Aleksey Venediktov says that these three reasons are fundamental, but he suggests that the profitability of the station for its owner, Gazprom, and his own skills as an editor committed to reporting facts rather than have warded off numerous threats to the station (newtimes.ru/articles/detail/25781). Asked directly how he explains why the Kremlin puts up with the independence of Ekho Moskvy, Venediktov says that first ...
Staunton, August 24 – Attacks on journalists in Russia and militia violence against Russian citizens inevitably attract more attention when they take place in Moscow or another central Russian city, but these disturbing phenomena are increasingly spreading across the entire country, as two new reports make clear. At the request of "New Times,” analysts at the Glasnost Defense Foundation, who have been monitoring attacks on journalists in Russia for ten years provided the Moscow weekly with "a detailed analysis of attacks” over the last five years, one that shows where the attacks have been and what have been the outcomes (newtimes.ru/articles/detail/25778). During that period, there have been attacks on journalists in 78 of the 83 federal subjects. Only Smolensk, Tambov and Magadan oblasts and the Nenets and Chukotka autonomous districts have had none, the foundation reports. ...
Update 6/27/10: Chief federal investigator Anatoly Bagmet said on Sunday that Okkert was most likely killed during a domestic dispute. We will continue to provide details on Okkert’s case as they become available.
A young Russian journalist has been found dead in his Moscow apartment, Interfax reports.
Acquaintances of 26-year-old Dmitri Okkert said that they had not had any contact with the journalist over the course of three days. On Friday morning, investigators found Okkert’s slain body in his central Moscow apartment.
An investigation is currently underway at Okkert’s residence. Sources in Russian law enforcement said that more than thirty knife wounds were found on the victim’s body. There was no report on any possible motive for the killing.
Anatoly Bagmet, head of the investigative department of the Moscow Regional Prosecutor’s Investigative Committee, will reportedly be personally in charge of the investigation.
One day after Federal Security Service officials confiscated 100 thousand copies straight off the presses, and just a few days after St. Petersburg city police confiscated another 100 thousand from a truck, opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was out on the streets of St. Petersburg handing out two thousand hastily printed samizdat copies of his coauthored report, "Putin. Results. 10 Years,” to a vociferous crowd of passers-by.
"I can’t remember this kind of interest, if not excitement, in our report,” Nemtsov wrote on his blog late Friday. The former deputy prime minister and co-leader of the Solidarity opposition movement apparently plans to travel throughout Russia to distribute the controversial pamphlets, which condemn Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for the problems that have grown or first arose during his time in power. "We’re going to hand out ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’ all over the ...
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