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Russian police on Saturday detained several journalists who protested authorities' decision to label a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent.” The journalists held individual pickets outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Moscow's Lubyanka Square. They held placards such ...
On Friday, Russian officials declared two independent media outlets as "foreign agents."
Der letzte private Fernsehsender in Russland mit nationaler Ausstrahlung ist als «ausländischer Agent» eingestuft worden. Das bedroht seine Existenz. Für kritischen Journalismus wird der Raum immer enger.
Andrey Votinov, the former vice president of energy giant Rosneft, allegedly bought a three-story mansion in London for £28.8 million ($40.8 million), shortly before fleeing Russia and escaping to live in the United Kingdom.
For Russia's Last Remaining Independent Media, April Was the Cruelest Month April was a terrible month for freedom of expression in Russia. In early April, the authorities struck at Roman Anin, editor-in-chief of iStories (Important Stories), a new outlet specializing in investigative journalism. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) raided Anin’s home and iStories’ office in connection with a 2016 criminal invasion of privacy case that had been dormant for more than four years concerning his reporting on a luxury yacht, owned by an off-shore company, on which the then-wife of Ig...