In March 2007 Ivan Safronov, who was investigating the sale of Russian arms to Iran and Syria, died after falling from a fifth-floor window. It was ruled a suicide.
In November 2009 independent broadcaster Olga Kotovskaya fell to her death from a 14th-floor window. She had been battling for control of her station with a member of the government. Her death was also ruled a suicide.
In February 2012 Victor Aphanasenko, editor of a newspaper that had been investigating paramilitary raids in southern Russia, died after slipping in his home.
In November 2015 Mikhail Lesin, who was often described as President Vladimir Putin's state media czar but who had fallen out of favor with him, was found dead after a fall in his hotel room in Washington, D.C. The FBI says he fell from extreme drinking and had "blunt force trauma to the head" and injuries to his neck, arms, legs and torso. That must have been some fall.
In March 2017 Nikolai Gorokhov, the lawyer for Sergei Magnitsky, who was the source of reporting on Russia's largest tax fraud, fell from a fourth-story window while trying to move a bathtub. Russian authorities made that explanation with a straight face.
Their names are on a roll of honor with almost 30 more dauntless Russian reporters. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/21/604497554/why-do-russian-journalists-keep-falling
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Politkovskaya, Beketov, Baburova, Markelov, Kashin, Kamalov—killed or severely wounded for not being a Putin/Mafia puppet. https://www.apnews.com/cfbe9fb70d4943e1881be5157b221cca
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Trump defended Putin again, to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. "You're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country. It has not been proven that he's killed reporters.”… currently ranks 180 out of 199 countries for press freedom, behind Iraq, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the international watchdog Freedom House….
Nina Ognianova, the coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Europe and Central Asia program, said journalists covering corruption, human rights abuses, organized crime and official wrongdoing can be "slain with impunity in Putin’s Russia."
"Their killers are emboldened to act by an administration that marginalizes them, isolates them and downplays their role in society," she said….In 2000, Igor Domnikov died from an attack in his apartment after reporting on government corruption.
Of the 34 killings in Russia, many of the suspected perpetrators are military officials, government officials or political groups. The vast majority of cases remain “unsolved”, including Khatloni, Sergey Ivanov, Kondakov, Skryl, Valery Ivanov, Shvets, Shchekochikhin, Guliyev, Sidorov, Klebnikov, Varisov, Kochetkov, Maksimov, Yevloyev, Protazanov, Estimerova, Akhmedilov, Aphanasenko, Gekkiyev, Potapov, Akhmednabiye, Lander, Kuashev.
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“The amount of aggression directed towards liberal journalists in this country from state media and elsewhere is overwhelming and non-stop,” she said. “Nobody is going to defend us; we’re the enemies of everyone.” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/23/russian-radio-journalist-tatyana-felgenhauer-stabbed-in-neck-at-her-moscow-office
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11-23-17
The Wall Street Journal noted that the commission of inquiry wants about 70 per cent of the detainees’ wealth noting that more than 2,000 accounts have been frozen so far.” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171123-report-detained-saudi-princes-face-prison-if-they-do-not-give-up-their-wealth/
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#Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince MBS will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, set to discuss oil production.
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