Journalistic death toll in Putin's Russia

Peter Preston in the Observer today, the catalogs of the deaths of journalists in Russia over the last twelve since Vladimir Putin came to power.

Reading it is dark, but it deserves repetition by journalists as much outside Russia as often as possible:

"In 2011, three journalists killed (including newspapers Khadzhimurad Kamalov publisher, from 14 times as he left his office).

In 2010, two deaths, in 2009, five more (including a young journalist with Novaya Gazeta, caught in a hail of bullets). Add four for 2008, one in 2007 and 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, the most famous victim of all of them is killed.

But she would not forget Yevgeny Gerasimenko - is at its Saratov flat with a plastic bag in the head and loss of the computer -. and should not

• two Russian journalists killed in 2005 and three in 2004 and 2003, but 2002 was a bad year, with eight lost (including Valery Ivanov, editor of the fight, a bullet in the head) and in 2001 added a new victim.
reigns of power to Vladimir Putin began in 2000 with six journalists killed and Editors. a dark omen, looking back, bad things to come "

Preston concludes: "? ... Is elected again and again, however, press freedom seems to mean little to him, unfortunately, you find the point to die unavenged"

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