Russia: security agent talks press freedom
An international conference on press freedom in Vienna, reports Andrei Soldatov, included a suprising guest: a Russian security service agent.
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Russian journalist fears high-level death threat
Alexandr Podrabinek has been driven into hiding after he wrote an article critical of defenders of the Soviet legacy. Maria Eismont reports
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Russian reporter goes into hiding
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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Russia and the West
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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