journalism between safety and impunity
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Prof., Dr. Mikhail Fedotov, Chairman, Council of the President of the Russian Federation on Development of Civil Society and
Human Rights
Moscow, 2014
Anna Politkovskaya was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006
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no link possible certain
Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
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suspect deathsmurder possibly linkedmurder linkedaccidentsCombat & terrorist
Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
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75 7670
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Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
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Total incidents more than 1 journalist
Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Other Defamation Extremism Corruption
Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
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did not reach court No decision conviction acquittal
Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
Data by the Supreme Court of RF
Data by the Supreme Court of RF
Data by the Supreme Arbitrage Court of RF
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Source - Glasnost Defence Foundation monitoringFor detail see databases http://journalists-in-russia.org and http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/search/
Council of the President of the Russian Federation on Development of Civil Society and Human Rights -www.president-sovet.ru
Russian Union of Journalists - www.ruj.ru Russia's Public Chamber for Press Complaints (PCPC) -
www.presscouncil.ru UNESCO Chair on Copyright and other Intellectual
Property Rights - www.unescochair.ru Glasnost Defense Foundation – www.gdf.ru John Crowfoot, “Russia - Conflicts in Media” website and
database http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/ Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations - www.cjes.ru