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Ivan Safronov’s treason charge - a warning to the Russian journalist community?
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London, 30th August- in our second episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana Estemirova interviews Anna Nemtsova, a Moscow-based journalist for the Daily Beast.
They discuss the case of Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who was arrested and charged with treason in what appears to be a politically motivated move. A correspondent for Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers and military reporter in the past, Ivan had been working for the Russian Space agency when he was arrested and charged. His friends and colleagues are convinced that his arrest is politically motivated. Ivan has published exclusive exposes on sensitive military topics and has been threatened on multiple occasions for his work. His father, also a journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant, died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building in 2007.
The conversation also touches upon the rising trend of treason charges, the important role of investigative journalism and the difficulties of being an independent journalist in Putin’s Russia.
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