Meduza

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Meduza is a bilingual internet newspaper based in Riga , Latvia . Meduza was founded in October 2014 by the former editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru , Galina Timchenko , and reports in Russian and English.

history

Like the editor-in-chief, most of the news website's 20 employees used to work for Lenta.ru . According to Timchenko, Putin did not recognize the power of the Internet until after the 2011 Duma elections and increased the censorship measures accordingly. Continuing to work from Russia would have meant dealing with the police, secret services and tax authorities. One “wrong” tweet is enough, “and six services come to check the editorial team”.

Investigative journalist Ivan Golunov , who works for Meduza , was arrested by police in Moscow on June 6, 2019 . The investigators accused him of drug possession, the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders spoke of "fabricated allegations" to silence a journalist critical of the government. The three most important business media Vedomosti, RBK and Kommersant expressed their solidarity with an identical title on June 9, while tens of thousands of citizens and celebrities campaigned for Golunov. Even before a planned public protest in Moscow on June 12, the Russian judiciary dropped the case against Golunov on June 11, 2019 and dropped the allegation of drug possession. According to the interior ministry, an internal investigation of the events is to be scheduled.

Web links

Commons : Meduza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Adler : Reaction to Russian censorship. An uncomfortable journalist starts again , Deutschlandfunk , October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Oliver Bilger: Just out of Mother Russia , Republic , May 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ Reporters Without Borders worries about the fate of investigative journalists. In: SZ.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 8, 2019, accessed on June 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "Акция солидарности главных бизнес-изданий России. В одной обложке. “ (The solidarity campaign of the most important business magazines in Russia. With the same front page.) Novaya Gazeta , June 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Dmitri Alexejewitsch Gluchowski : Hydra , Nowaja Gaseta, June 11, 2019
  6. ↑ Dialogue with a transition to crying , Novaya Gazeta, June 11, 2019
  7. ↑ Christina Hebel: Reporter Golunov released from arrest: The case that gives Russia hope . In: Spiegel Online . June 11, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).