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List of journalists killed in Russia

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The dangers to journalists in Russia have been known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. While international monitors mentioned a dozen deaths, some sources within Russia talked of over two hundred fatalities. The evidence has since been examined and documented in two reports, published in Russian and English, by international organizations. These revealed a basic confusion in terminology that explained the seemingly enormous numerical discrepancy: statistics of premature death among journalists (from work accidents, crossfire incidents, and purely criminal or domestic cases of manslaughter) were repeatedly equated with the much smaller number of targeted (contract) killings or work-related murders. It is worth considering that while not all murders can be linked directly to the Kremlin, the frequency of these murders and their effects on Russian independent media certainly suggest complacency on the part of law enforcement officials. The Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty in Russia is observed on 15 December every year.

Tables

· Deaths and trials, statistics
Year
Year
President
Year
Y
1993
Y
1994
Y
1995
Y
1996
Y
1997
Y
1998
Y
1999
P
2000
P
2001
P
2002
P
2003
P
2004
P
2005
P
2006
P
2007
P–M
2008
M
2009
Col 19
TOTAL
Murder, crossfire,terrorist act
Murder, crossfire,terrorist act
President
Murder, crossfire,terrorist act
Y
10
Y
12
Y
22
Y
18
Y
10
Y
10
Y
11
P
17
P
12
P
23
P
11
P
12
P
5
P
13
P
3
P–M
5
M
6
Col 19
200
Murder only
Murder only
President
Murder only
Y
3
Y
8
Y
16
Y
12
Y
10
Y
10
Y
8
P
15
P
11
P
20
P
11
P
10
P
4
P
13
P
3
P–M
5
M
6
Col 19
165
Trials
Trials
President
Trials
Y
–
Y
–
Y
–
Y
1
Y
1
Y
4
Y
4
P
3
P
1
P
3
P
3
P
6
P
2
P
7
P
5
P–M
4
M
2
Col 19
50
President
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P–M
M
Year
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
TOTAL
Murder, crossfire,terrorist act
10
12
22
18
10
10
11
17
12
23
11
12
5
13
3
5
6
200
Murder only
3
8
16
12
10
10
8
15
11
20
11
10
4
13
3
5
6
165
Trials
–
–
–
1
1
4
4
3
1
3
3
6
2
7
5
4
2
50

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