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Russia
“The rule used to be that they knew they
couldn't criticize [President Vladimir]
Putin and had to be cautious in what they
said, but they could report a fact as a fact.
Now there are problems even with facts.”
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PAVEL FELGENHAUER, MILITARY ANALYST
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Yelena Tregubova was about to leave her
apartment when a package placed outside her front door exploded.
Tregubova, who was uninjured in the February 2004 attack, had
been a Kremlin reporter for Russian newspaper Kommersant,
before being sacked for writing a tell–all bestseller about life
behind Kremlin walls, and about the Kremlin's influence beyond
them. “There's not one chief editor,” she has said, “who wouldn't
drop a story or a reporter if the Kremlin told them to.” In the five
years since Vladimir Putin was elected president, the state has
muzzled nearly all independent TV and press, and 15 journalists
have been assassinated, the latest on June 28, 2005. Tregubova
has left Russia for an undisclosed location; the 15 murders
remain unsolved.
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