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Putin's press

A decade since Russia's leading investigative journalist, Anna Polikovskaya,was assassinated in Moscow, the Guardian's New East network surveys the impact of her death and state of the press in Russia and Chechnya today

13 April 2022

  • Hoarding in Brovary, outside Kyiv, reads ‘Russian warship, fuck off’.

    How swearing became a weapon of resistance for Ukrainians

    Their enthusiastic use of bad language contrasts with Putin’s linguistic prissiness – and shows that Russia doesn’t own Russian

10 October 2016

  • Public shaming and forced abductions are key to Ramzan Kadyrov’s strategy to eliminate dissent.

    Public humiliation: Chechen leader's simple strategy to control social media

  • Ramzan Kadyrov shows his extensive collection of weapons in his office in Chechnya.

    Chechen journalists, international journalists – Ramzan Kadyrov has silenced us all

    Anonymous

6 October 2016

  • Activists demonstrate with photos of journalists, including Politkovskaya (right), who have been gunned down in Moscow since 2006.

    The women risking everything to report from Russia's frontlines

    Anecdotal evidence suggests it is mainly female journalists filling the gap left by the murder 10 years ago of Anna Politkovskaya

5 October 2016

  • Natalia Estemirova and Anna Politkovskaya.

    My mum and Anna Politkovskaya: women who died for the truth

    Lana Estemirova
  • A portrait of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

    The murder that killed free media in Russia

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