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Russia Labels Telegram News Channel Astra ‘Foreign Agent’

The news channel, founded shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, said it would continue its work despite the designation.

Russian Court Orders Arrest of CNN Journalist for Kursk Reporting

Moscow has launched several criminal proceedings against Western journalists who had produced reports from the Kursk region after Kyiv's surprise August...

Ukrainian Reporter Died in Russian Detention, Kyiv Says

Victoria Roshchyna disappeared in August last year after traveling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report.

Trial Opens for Russian Journalists in Navalny ‘Extremism’ Case

Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergei Karelin and Artyom Kriger were accused of producing videos for Navalny's groups.

Russia Adds DOXA Co-Founder Aramyan to ‘Terrorists and Extremists’ List

Armen Aramyan, who fled Russia in 2022 after being sentenced to correctional labor, responded to the news by writing, “It took a while.”

Moscow Police Arrest 3 Journalists Outside Annexation Celebration on Red Square

Human rights watchdog OVD-Info said one of the journalists worked at the news website Republic and the other two for SOTAvision.

Russia Jails Ex-Editor of Youth Magazine DOXA 7 Years in Absentia for ‘Justifying Terrorism’

Maria Menshikova was convicted over two posts she made on the Russian social network VKontakte in the summer of 2022.

Russia Charges Australian, Romanian Journalists Over Reporting From Kursk

Despite being identified as U.S. citizens by the FSB, the charged ABC reporters Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung are Australian nationals.

Jailed Anti-War Journalist Ponomarenko Declares Hunger Strike

Maria Ponomarenko faces a new trial for allegedly assaulting prison guards — charges she denies, accusing prison staff of abuse instead.

Russian State TV Reporter Discharged From Hospital After Drone Attack Injury

Yevgeny Poddubny was hospitalized after a drone struck the vehicle he was riding in during a reporting assignment in the embroiled Kursk region.

Nikolai Svanidze, Russian Journalist and Ukraine War Critic, Dies Aged 69

Svanidze was known for hosting political and historical talk shows on state-run television in the mid-1990s and early to mid-2000s.

Russia Labels Meduza CEO Timchenko ‘Foreign Agent’

Authorities accused her of spreading “inaccurate information aimed at forming a negative image of the Russian armed forces.”

Newspaper Publisher in Siberia Jailed 8 Years Over War ‘Fakes’

Sergei Mikhailov was arrested in April 2022 after publishing information about the Russian army’s mass killing of civilians in Ukraine.

Jailed Anti-War Journalist Ponomarenko Threatens Self-Harm Over Prison Abuse

Maria Ponomarenko was sentenced to six years in prison in February 2023 for spreading “fake news” about Russia’s 2022 bombing of a theater in Mariupol...

Russia Charges Deutsche Welle Journalist Over Kursk Reporting

Russia’s FSB has so far pressed charges against seven foreign journalists who reported from the embroiled Kursk region.

Russia Charges CNN Journalist Over Report From Sudzha

Nick Paton Walsh was charged with “illegally crossing the state border of Russia” after he traveled to the Ukrainian-held town.

Russian State TV War Correspondent Survives Drone Attack

Initial reports falsely claimed Yevgeny Poddubny had died, but authorities later confirmed that he had regained consciousness.

Russia May Free 20-30 Political Prisoners in Historic Exchange With West

Previous reporting suggested that up to 10 high-profile political prisoners were being readied for the rumored exchange.

Olympic Organizers Confirm Russian Journalists Stripped of Accreditation

TASS said the withdrawal of its journalists' accreditation was "completely unexpected" and came after the journalists arrived in France.

Exiled Russian Journalist Mikhail Zygar Jailed 8.5 Years in Absentia for Bucha ‘Fakes’

Zygar is the latest figure to be jailed over their comments about the Russian military’s actions in Ukraine.

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