6. Blog masonry — gradient overlap

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…

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.…