Journalist dangers in Russia

Independent journalist in Russia, Novaya Gazeta, is described in an article of The Wall Street Journal by Elena Milashina. Gazeta describes the dangers that journalists such as herself must watch out for in Putin's reign in Russia.

 Over the past 10 years, five of Novaya Gazeta's journalists have been murdered. One of the victims was our star correspondent and my mentor, Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in 2006 after tirelessly exposing brutal human-rights violations in Chechnya.

Shown to them by the daring reporters and journalists who freely expressed their freedom of speech and press in America, Russian journalists try to mimic this verbosity. However, the government obviously has many flaws that it wants to contain and keep from the public and the world. Gazeta can consider herself lucky because she is one of the few that is able to still report the misdoings of the government and has not suffered the punishment of assassination. Articles such as these are brought to light in America and rightfully so. As a country we can deem the killings of these journalists unmoral and hopefully offer the ones living sanction.