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Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union.
Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for the Ej.ru news website on 21 September, which discussed the Soviet Union’s crimes against the Russian people and criticised the way the current government is defending its image in the people’s collective memory.
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Are reporters who risk their lives in Russia, many of whom are killed, the modern-day equivalents of Soviet-era dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov? This question was central to a debate on press freedom, organised by Index on Censorship to mark publication of a report on the issue by Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia’s press, writes Nina Ognianova
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The killing of Natalia Estemirova is a sign of the republic’s drift into lawlessness and violence under President Kadyrov, writes Lucy Ash
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