From: "John Crowfoot" <sredny@freenet.co.uk> Subject: Murders of journalists in Russia Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009
OVER 150 JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN RUSSIA DURING THE PAST 15 YEARS A commentary on the recent interview by Major-General Gribakin (police) By John Crowfoot International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) analyst 13 February 2008
On 4 February Major-General Valery Gribakin told Itar-TASS that the “number of instances when revenge is taken on journalists for their publications and investigations is, as a percentage of the whole, not large”. To illustrate his assertion about the main reasons for violent deaths among journalists in Russia, the head of public relations at the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave eight examples from the last seven years. At the same time, the general stressed that “those in charge of the ministry and its operative departments, of course, keep a special watch over the killing of journalists,” (http://www.mvd.ru/press/interview/6115/ ). ...
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