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State­ment by the Foun­da­tion 19/29 in Con­nec­tion with the Kremlin’s Aggres­sion against Ukraine

Is it pos­si­ble to intro­duce cen­sor­ship bypass­ing the Con­sti­tu­tion? Eas­i­ly. All one needs to do is to con­struct an appro­pri­ate sys­tem, get the “right” peo­ple to ini­ti­ate the process in par­lia­ment in order to give it the appear­ance of legal­i­ty, intro­duce the word “for­eign agent” which sounds sus­pi­cious to the aver­age cit­i­zen, incite law enforcement…

This post is not about inves­ti­ga­tions, but about those who do them.  Our col­leagues and friends from The Project. The best, bright­est and fear­less. About those, whose friend­ship our Com­mu­ni­ty of Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ists – Fond 19/29 is proud of, whom we glad­ly quote, from whom we urge to learn.  Gali­na Sidoro­va. Ages ago, now, it seems,…

We are often asked: how do the author­i­ties respond to inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism, and do they respond at all? After all, often jour­nal­ists uncov­er cas­es of obvi­ous cor­rup­tion and noth­ing hap­pens. Does this mean that we risked our lives in vain, that we worked in vain?  This time, it did­n’t take long for the reac­tion to come:…

Why do peo­ple in Rus­sia — unlike cit­i­zens of oth­er coun­tries — actu­al­ly sab­o­tage vac­ci­na­tion, while the epi­dem­ic seems to be gain­ing momen­tum again? After read­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion “Oper­a­tion E” in Novaya Gaze­ta (by Iri­na Tumako­va) the rea­son becomes clear­er: the state itself is doing every­thing to pre­vent cit­i­zens from trust­ing it… The author of the…

The Russ­ian author­i­ties are using more sub­tle tricks to hin­der the work of inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists. But jour­nal­ists are no strangers to this. Roman Anin, ISto­ries edi­­­tor-in-chief, until recent­ly, the head of Novaya Gaze­ta’s inves­tiga­tive depart­ment and also an expert with our Com­mu­ni­ty of Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ists – Fond 19/29 has proven that a jour­nal­ist remains a…

The edi­tors of the stu­dent mag­a­zine DOXA, Armen Aramyan, Alla Gut­niko­va, Vladimir Metelkin, and Natasha Tyshke­vich, joined the ranks of jour­nal­ists who are increas­ing­ly being «reward­ed» by the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment for their hon­est, self­less work. They are reward­ed with crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion. The brave four have been “award­ed”, or, more pre­cise­ly, charged so far, with Article…