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Two seizures of newspaper issues by regional governments in past month

Published on 2 August 2011Read

Bloggers under pressure

Harassment, prosecutions, convictions – the daily lot of Russian bloggers

Published on 15 June 2011Read

Suspected Politkovskaya hit-man arrested in Chechnya

Reporters Without Borders gives a cautious welcome to the news that Rustam Makhmudov, the suspected hit-man in the October 2006 murder of Novaya (...)

Published on 1 June 2011 Read

Court acquits Dagestan’s leading independent newspaper

Reporters Without Borders welcomes a decision by a court in Makhachkala, the capital of the southern republic of Dagestan, to end a three-year (...)

Published on 20 May 2011 Read

Young journalist gunned down in northern Dagestan

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Yakhya Magomedov, the young editor of the Avar-language version of a bi-monthly magazine that (...)

Published on 10 May 2011 Read

Do guilty verdicts in double murder mark beginning of end for impunity?

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the guilty verdicts that a Moscow court has handed down in the trial of two ultra-nationalist activists for (...)

Published on 2 May 2011 Read

Extradition request for dissident journalist is "illegal and absurd"

Reporters Without Borders today denounced as “illegal and absurd” the efforts of the Tajik government to get dissident journalist Dodojon (...)

Published on 12 April 2011 Read

Danger of generalized online surveillance and censorship

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that, according to Lenta.ru, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal supervisory agency for communications, (...)

Published on 30 March 2011 Read

Guardian reporter allowed to return

Luke Harding, correspondent of the British daily The Guardian who was deported from Russia on 5 February, returned to his job in Moscow on 12 (...)

Published on 14 February 2011 Read

Neo-Nazi husband and wife go on trial for double murder of lawyer and journalist

The trial of two people accused of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, a human rights lawyer specialised in Chechnya, and Novaya Gazeta reporter (...)

Published on 14 January 2011 Read

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Russia - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Russia - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Russia - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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