Insight - Independent media battle on in Putin's Russia


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Jul 2015

Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov speaks during an interview, with a photo of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya seen in the background, in Moscow, Russia, October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alexei Venediktov, one of Russia's most prominent journalists, does not go out without a bodyguard and does not answer mobile phone calls for fear of being tracked.

He has worried about security since someone left a chopping block with an axe in it outside his apartment in 2009 and he fled Russia for a week this year, fearing he was on a hit list.

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