INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The past year has been another troubling one for the Russian free press.Russian officials branded scores of independent news outlets
as 17 media professionals have been detained in Russia for their work, bringing the total number of media workers imprisoned in the country
journalist Evan Gershkovich has perhaps been most widely covered by international media.Gershkovich, who was once a reporter at The Moscow
a Moscow bureau chief for U.S
News - World Report who was arrested by Soviet authorities in 1986
He spent 13 days in detention before being returned to the U.S
journalist for the Tatar-Bashkir service of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
She was arrested while visiting family in her native republic of Tatarstan in October
were granted the label years ago
used by Russian officials to target independent media and individual journalists who comprise more than 40% of the register, according to
Sota, 7x7, Groza and investigative news outlet Proekt, as well as dozens of prominent journalists, including Artemy Troitsky, Andrei Loshak
It also allows any funds and assets in the country to be confiscated.In 2023, the independent news outlets Meduza and Novaya Gazeta Europe
operating in defiance of the risks the designation exposes its staff and donors to
introduced in the wake of the war or shedding light on local crime and corruption in their reporting.In February, Siberian journalist and
activist Maria Ponomarenko was sentenced to six years in prison for publishing information about the Russian bombing of a theater in the
occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.Mikhail Afanasyev.Press service of the Yabloko partyIn September, journalist Mikhail Afanasyev from
the Siberian republic of Khakassia was sentenced to more than five years in prison for reporting on the refusal of 11 local riot police
officers to be deployed to Ukraine.The same month, a court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced independent journalist Abdulmumin
his professional activities
Abdulmumin Gadzhiev.t.me/zapravarfIn addition to imprisonment, journalists reporting on Russian regions continue to face the threat of
branded as a "foreign agent" by the Russian government
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