Truth is being murdered in Putin's bloody Russia | Observer editorial

Another journalist was brutally murdered for daring to expose corruption and organized crime that is less tolerated by the elite of Moscow

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Kamalov fighting a publisher to do their job - the essential work for any good journalist based in Dagestan. Reported the truth about official corruption, organized crime, anarchy that surrounds the Russian North Caucasus, and certainly knew the risks he took. The masked gunmen who ambushed him outside his office last week and shot a cool 14 or more times has always been a caller on hold media - like the shooter that killed a journalist from Dagestan, Yakhya Magomedov, in May Although he was shot four times.

facts along this trail of blood, becomes more difficult. Four journalists killed in Russia, Vladimir Putin, this year alone. This is actually a "good year" by some parameters, such as about 200 have been killed since his arrival to take power. We in the West could have saved a few terrible cases - for example, the murder of Anna Politkovskaya - but year after year, something like a silent massacre was even tolerated. Beyond the control of crime, often superficially studied. Crimes against freedom bathed with impunity lazy. Killed many, many, but little merit even a semblance of justice.

course, says that given in case after case is not possible. A general conclusion, however, is inevitable. Russia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to practice journalism or any kind of revelation of the truth. Far from Moscow, scattered republics, anything goes - and goes unavenged. In Moscow, the leaders who pay lip service the parade of human rights is only an indifference which makes them complicit in these crimes. Mr. Kamalov died the same day as Russian organizations, journalists had gathered to commemorate those of his colleagues had been killed. Bitter irony. How much more, Putin? How long are we supposed to mourn his colleagues who died trying to tell us, and his fellow Russian, which is a loose, muddy state, Running Wild?

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