Esta es la triste realidad para los profesionales de la comunicación rusos en tiempos de Putin.
Según se dice en el artículo de James Gambrell en "The New York Review of Books", esos periodistas asesinados estaban investigando o habían publicado historias críticas sobre el gobierno o los negocios oficiales.
No han aparecido culpables de esos asesinatos, incluso en los pocos casos en que la policía detuvo algún sospechoso.
Murdering journalists is simply the most visible manifestation of the constan campaign against the press. Far more effective are the economic, judicial, an administrative measures being used systematically to quash human rights an information-gathering organizations and other genuinely independent members of civi society.
Frequent tax audits and expensive, time-consuming re-registration procedure have been among the weapons of choice. In recent months there have been raids on news organizations to confiscate "illegal software"; shuffles of top-level managemen between government-controlled and "private" national television stations that provid most Russians with their news; managerial directives to present 50 percent "positive news; "stop lists" of politicians and activists not to be mentioned on the air; and an en to live, on-the-scene reporting and live talk shows.
Comentarios