Why Kremlin Wants To Shut The Media Up
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 Russ...