Why Kremlin Wants To Shut The Media Up

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Freedom of Speech and power of fourth estate might be becoming a farce in the free world...




Threat of a chemical attack seems to be the easiest way to deter the ones fighting for truth and justice in Russia. This time, it’s a vocal newspaper service itself under the firing line.

Novaya Gazeta was greeted with a chemical substance left outside its entrance, locking out the staff inside. There was no possibility to a conversation or moving out, unless the chemical substance was tested. The chemical substance is being investigated by Russian security services FSB.

According to Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, the newspaper is being targeted for having been a point of evidence gathering through the articles that the newspaper had written in an investigative project undertaken in 2019.

 

The incident that led to writing the articles was about related to the assassination of several Syrians under detention. Towards this, three NGOs have recently filed a lawsuit against Russian mercenary group Wagner over the torture and killing of those Syrian detainees. Muratov noted in the statement that the case was "based on our articles".

 

The newspaper also published on Monday an investigation into abuses committed in Chechnya. The autonomous republic in the Caucasus region is run by authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

 

Freedom of speech does not seem to free after all. This is not the first time that the voice of the fourth estate is being shut off in the so called free world that we live in. Systematic attack, arrest and detainment of journalists is also rampant in countries like Iran, Turkey and now China too.

 

But when it comes to the dictatorial work of Putin, journalists have lost their lives too. In 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in the entrance hall of her apartment block in Moscow. She was investigating Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin's tactics in Chechnya.

 

In the past, the editor has received indicative threat calls to stop investigating into the works of Kremlin. The newspaper is owned by its editorial staff, business tycoon Alexander Lebedev and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

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