2009

Journalists have been silenced for covering Chechnya and its neighboring republics, Dagestan and Ingushetia. Opaque investigations into the killings have fed deep skepticism.

A veteran reporter in the region describes how authorities censor the news through intimidation.

Guilty verdicts in the killing of Igor Domnikov show that persistence can lead to justice. But critics say the case, successful as it has been, remains far from complete.

The prosecution did outstanding work in the Domnikov case, but it stopped far too short, a human rights lawyer says. The problem is systemic.

The Committee to Protect Journalists makes the following recommendations to Russian authorities and the international community in the interest of reversing the record of impunity in journalist deaths in Russia.

Excerpts from the work of journalists slain in Russia since 2000

Key statistics as compiled by the Committee to Protect Jurnalists

In this video report, CPJ’s Nina Ognianova and Muzaffar Suleymanov discuss impunity in the murders of Russian journalists. (7:00) Read the special report, “Anatomy of Injustice.”

New York, September 9, 2009—Regional authorities must launch a thorough probe into a brazen attack on Mikhail Afanasyev, editor of the online magazine Novy Fokus, and examine whether his journalism was the motive, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

We released this statement today after Russia’s Supreme Court returned the case against three men suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya to prosecutors for further investigation…