Anniversaries of Russian journalist murders pile up
July 12, 2013 4:46 PM ET
Last week, I was preparing to write a column about the anniversary of Paul Klebnikov's murder. The American editor of Forbes-Russia was murdered contract-style nine years ago in Moscow at the age of 41. He had investigated connections between...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Impunity Still the Norm in Russia
February 21, 2012 11:21 PM ET
Russian investigators have adopted a more serious tone when discussing unsolved journalist murders, but officials still lack the will to apprehend masterminds of the killings. The lack of convictions takes a serious toll on investigative journalism. By Nina Ognianova...
Russia pledges to pursue journalist murder probes
September 30, 2010 3:15 AM ET
Moscow, September 30, 2010--Top Russian investigators have pledged to pursue 19 cases of murdered journalists presented to them by a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists, reopening several closed cases and pursuing new leads in a number of other...
Russia should disclose information on Klebnikov murder
July 9, 2010 3:27 PM ET
New York, July 9, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Russian authorities to disclose their progress in the investigation into the unsolved murder of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov, left, who was gunned down outside his Moscow office six...
Impunity Summit: Solidarity in fighting journalist murders
April 21, 2010 1:16 PM ET
Every day at CPJ, we count numbers: 18 journalists killed in Russia since 2000, 32 journalists and media workers slaughtered in the Maguindanao massacre, 88 journalists murdered over the last 10 years in Iraq. But on Tuesday night at...