Since 1999, 25 Russian journalists have been killed and at least 31 arrested and in prison.
'The Global News', the new online publication directed by Giovanni Terzi and presented today in the Senate during a conference, tells about them and shows them in photos.
Russia, 56 journalists dead and arrested since '99
The report on reporters who have paid with their lives or personal freedom in Russia since President Putin has been in power was released through a video projected at Palazzo Giustiani and available online.
It is the result of collaboration with the 'Memorial society', the Russian association founded in 1987 to document the persecutions of political dissidents in that country and which last year won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Among the images of the dead journalists are Anna Politkovskaya, "found murdered at her home on Putin's birthday" (the caption in the video) on October 7, 2006;
Chadžimurad Kamalov, founder of the Chernovik investigative newspaper and shot 14 times as he left his job in the Russian republic of Dagestan;
Ivan Safronov,
found dead after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building;
Mikhail Beketov suffocated;
Vladimir Yatsina killed by Chechen militants;
Yuri Shchekochikhin, who died in 2003 after 12 days in the hospital from an acute allergic reaction.
Among the reporters arrested and in prison or under house arrest are Oleksiy Bessarabov, one of the defendants in the case of the so-called 'Crimean terrorists', detained since 2016 and sentenced to 14 years in prison;
Andrei Russkikh, awaiting extradition since last May;
Asan Akhtemov, sentenced to 15 years with service in a strict regime colony;
Maria Ponomarenko, sentenced to 6 years in a penal colony.