Statement by the Foundation 19/29 in Connection with the Kremlin’s Aggression against Ukraine
Statement by the Foundation 19/29 in Connection with the Kremlin’s Aggression against Ukraine
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Journalists Have Revealed the Mechanism and Accomplices of the Ban on their Profession under the Guise of “Foreign Agents” and “Undesirable” Laws
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…
IStories Found out what’s Wrong with the Environmental Monitoring System in Russia
In the mid-1980s, my first big journalistic business trip happened. It was to the North, and one of the stops on the way was Norilsk. I remember leaving my hotel on a June day that was too sultry for those places and finding myself inside a “sandstorm” — the city was enveloped in a yellowish…
Desirable!
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,…
Journalists of The Project tried to Get to the Origins of the Russian Police Chief’s family’s Wealth, and the Police – to the Origins of the Journalists’ Sources
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:…
Novaya Gazeta Reveals the Secrets of the EpiVacCorona Vaccine, for which 3.5 Billion Rubles Were Spent From the Budget
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 Editor of IStories Identified the Persons behind his Persecution and Surveillance of Novaya Gazeta Journalists
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 Journalists of Project Media and DOXA Found out Who Teaches Russian Students
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…
Today it’s not about our colleagues’ best investigations – it’s about persecution. The persecution of the lawyer Ivan Pavlov by the security forces for his professional work to protect the right of journalists to inform the public, and the right of the public to know
The morning starts with the usual news — searches and detentions. This time police raided the home of Ivan Pavlov, a well-known lawyer, human rights defender and head of the Team 29 (Komanda 29)– association of lawyers and journalists fighting for the rights of Russian citizens to information access and distribution. Pavlov has been detained.…