"We support the Politkovskaya family's appeal for a renewed, vigorous investigation," CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said. "The prosecution needs to strengthen its case before re-trying the defendants. More importantly, authorities need to focus their resources toward identifying, apprehending, and prosecuting all of Anna's killers--including the gunman, the middle men, and the masterminds of her assassination."
Russian court sentences Ukrainian journalist to 12 years for espionage
June 4, 2018 12:58 PM ET
New York, June 4, 2018--Russian authorities should immediately release Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A Moscow city court sentenced Sushchenko, a Paris-based correspondent for Ukraine's state news agency, Ukrinform, to 12 years in a high-security prison on espionage charges today, Russian and Ukrainian...
Russia designates nine U.S.-funded news outlets as foreign agents
December 5, 2017 1:30 PM ET
New York, December 5, 2017--Russia's Justice Ministry announced today that it has designated nine U.S. government-funded press outlets as "foreign agents," under a newly expanded law, according to reports. The ministry named the outlets as the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and seven of its affiliates, and Voice...
Russian editor arrested, allegedly injured in custody; newspaper raided
November 3, 2017 5:32 PM ET
New York, November 3, 2017--The editor-in-chief and owner of the independent, Kaliningrad-based weekly Novye Kolyosa, Igor Rudnikov, was allegedly beaten while in custody of Russia's security service (FSB) and faces criminal prosecution, according to media reports and a staff member who spoke with CPJ on condition of anonymity for...
CPJ calls on Russian authorities to condemn stabbing attack on Ekho Moskvy journalist
October 23, 2017 11:07 AM ET
New York, October 23, 2017--An unidentified assailant today broke into the Moscow office of Ekho Moskvy and stabbed Tatyana Felgengauer in the throat, the outlet's editor-in-chief, Alexey Venediktov, wrote on Twitter. Felgengauer, the deputy editor-in-chief and an anchor at the independent radio station, was hospitalized, according to media reports....
Independent journalist Yulia Latynina flees Russia following attacks
September 11, 2017 3:12 PM ET
New York, September 11, 2017--Russian journalist Yulia Latynina, who writes a column for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and hosts a weekly radio show on Ekho Moskvy, has fled Russia after a series of attacks, according to local and international reports. In the latest incident on September 3, attackers...