Glasnost defence foundation digest No. 784

9 January 2017

DIGEST DEFENCE FOUNDATION

Media-related conflicts registered by GDF Monitoring Service on RF territory in 2016

Deaths of journalists - 3, vs. 4 in 2015; 5 in 2014; 4 in 2013; 4 in 2012; 6 in 2011; 12 in 2010; 9 in 1009; 5 in 2008; and 8 in 2007

Andrei Nazarenko, cameraman, TV channel Rossiya 1, Moscow; Fyodor Kulagin, chief editor, newspaper Zvezda, Bashkortostan; Pavel Podyachev, publisher, newspaper Otkrytyi Gorodok and news website SOS NSO, Novosibirsk

Attacks on journalists - 54, vs.70 in 2016; 58 in ; 71 in 2013; 94 in 2012; 81 in 2011; 58 in 2010; 59 in 2009; 69 in 2008; 75 in 2007; and 69 in 2006

February: Andranik Suleimanyan, freelance journalist, Moscow; Tatyana Shakirova, RIA OmskInform correspondent, Omsk; Yevgeny Kurakin, blogger, Moscow Region; Maria Smirnova, reporter, and Oleg Biryukov, cameraman, both of Saratov 24 TV channel, Saratov; Sergei Vinokurov, correspondent, Sobesednik weekly, Moscow

March: Lena Maria Persson-Loefgren, Sveriges Radio correspondent, Øystein Windstad, reporter for Norwegian monthly Ny Tid, Alexandra Yelagina (The New Times) and Yegor Skovoroda (Mediazona), Anton Prusakov, former reporter for business daily Kommersant, blogger Mikhail Solunin, and Ivan Zhiltsov, spokesman for Committee to Prevent Torture - all attacked in Ingushetia; Sergei Ovsyannikov, Yevpatoriyskaya Zdravnitsa correspondent, Crimea; film crew with Tula News Service, attacked in Tula Region; Igor Rudnikov, founder and editor, newspaper Kaliningradskiye Novyye Kolyosa, Kaliningrad; Yulia Skornyakova, Chita.ru journalist, Chita

April: Eduard Mochalov, chief editor, newspapers Vzyatka and Samana, Chuvash Republic; Leila Agirbova, freelancer, Moscow; Alexander Nikishin, freelancer, Saratov; Gleb Limansky, Novaya Gazeta journalist, Moscow; Daniil Turovsky, Meduza correspondent, Moscow; Yan Katelevsky, blogger, Moscow Region

May: Igor Markelov, photojournalist, Ura.ru news agency, Kurgan; Oleg Kunitsyn, deputy chief editor, newspaper Minuta Istiny, Vologda; Artyom Torchinsky, anchorman, Dozhd channel, attacked in Krasnodar Region; Yevgeny Domozhirov, blogger, Vologda; Denis Kuchmenko, journalist, head of Gorod media holding, Bratsk, Irkutsk Region

June: Pavel Brykin, Rossiya 1 TV Channel correspondent in Vladivostok; Shamil Abashilov, former chief editor, Molodyozh Dagestana weekly, Makhachkala; Denis Samsonov, blogger, St. Petersburg; Yegor Alekseyev, blogger, St. Petersburg; Olga Ripacheva, KVU news portal journalist, Rostov Region; Yevgeny Vlasov, SitiYug news portal correspondent, Rostov Region

July: Yelena Suslova, deputy editor, newspaper Otkrytaya Gazeta, Stavropol Region; Eldar Bulatov, Ura.ru news agency journalist, Khanty-Mansiysk; Life78 TV channel film crew, Leningrad Region; Yelena Sidorenkova, newspaper Rabochaya Demokratiya, Moscow Region; staff journalists with newspaper Vyberi Luchsheye, Murmansk Region; Yermak TV channel film crew, Yekaterinburg, attacked in Sverdlovsk Region; another Yermak TV channel film crew, Yekaterinburg; REN TV film crew, Moscow

August: Dmitry Remizov, RosBalt correspondent, Rostov-on-Don; Yulia Latynina, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, Moscow; NTV film crew, Ufa

September: Yelena Kostyuchenko, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, and Diana Khachatryan, Takiye Dela journalist, both attacked in North Ossetia, twice; Vakhit Niyazov, correspondent with City TV Channel One, Omsk Region; Pavel Lobkov, observer, Dozhd TV channel, Moscow; Vitaly Karmazin, Vesti-Dezhurnaya Chast correspondent, attacked in Moscow Region; Denis Shaikin, journalist and publisher, newspaper MK-Chernozemye, Kursk; Andrei Gorelov, journalist, Virtualnaya Vyksa web news portal, Nizhny Novgorod Region; Revizorro film crew, attacked in Vladivostok; Grigory Pasko, freelance journalist, attacked in Barnaul

October: Alexandra Garmazhapova, Novaya Gazeta v Peterburge correspondent, St. Petersburg; Vitaly Shcherbakov, editor, Surgutinform-TV company, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District; Konstantin Bronevitsky, cameraman, Bloknot-Volgograd publication, Volgograd

November: Mark Bezymenny, Life TV channel director, and Vladimir Serenko, Life TV channel assistant director, attacked in Moscow; Darya Yermakova, REN TV correspondent, Moscow; Sergei Mokhov, publisher, Arkheologiya Russkoi Smerti magazine, Moscow

December: David Frenkel, freelance contributor to Kommersant, St. Petersburg; Magomed Magomedov, Novoye Delo journalist, Makhachkala

Attacks on media offices, TV/radio stations - 1, vs.2 in 2015;1 in 2014; 4 in 2013; 4 in 2012; 4 in 2011; 8 in 2010; 10 in 2009; 7 in 2008; and 11 in 2007

Newspaper Smolenskaya Narodnaya Gazeta, Smolensk

Instances of censorship - 33, vs. 50 in 2015; 33 in 2014; 33 in 2013; 46 in 2012; 52 in 2011; 29 in 2010; 33 in 2009; 21 in 2008; 33 in 2007; and 28 in 2006

Life 78 TV channel, St. Petersburg; NTV channel, Moscow; NTA-Privolzhye and Vremya N news agencies, both based in Nizhny Novgorod; LiveJournal, Moscow; Beton.ru news portal, Moscow; newspaper Serpukhovskiye Vesti, Moscow Region; City Channel One, Nizhny Novgorod; Obratnaya Svyaz TV show, Orenburg; Deita news agency, Vladivostok; website of newspaper Vecherniy Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk; TASS news agency, Moscow; Russia Today news agency, Moscow; RBK channel, Moscow; newspaper Tridevyatyi Region, Kaliningrad; Ekho Moskvy radio station, Moscow; newspaper Znamya, Vladimir Region; newspaper Orskaya Gazeta, Orenburg Region; regional TV channels in Murmansk; Gradus.pro news website, North Ossetia; Moskva 24 TV channel, Moscow; Sankt-Peterburg TV channel, St. Petersburg; Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District media; newspaper Iskra, Stavropol Region; newspaper Vyatskiy Nablyudatel, Kirov; newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Moscow; news web portal Stavropolskiye Vedomosti, Stavropol; Forbes Russia magazine, Moscow; newspaper Komsomolets Bryanska, Bryansk; newspaper Otkrytaya Gazeta, Stavropol; Ekspress TV/Radio Company, Penza; Penza-Press web publication, Penza; Novyi Fokus web magazine, Abakan

Criminal charges against journalists, bloggers and media - 47, vs. 24 in 2015; 24 in 2014; 28 in 2013; 42 in 2012; 42 in 2011; 45 in 2010; 37 in 2009; 21 in 2008; 33 in 2007; and 28 in 2006

January: Rafis Kashapov, blogger, Tatarstan

February: Grigory Pereborshchikov, journalist contributing to Meduza, Moscow; Anton Nosik, blogger, Moscow; Erik Kiruashvili, blogger and founder of Smotra.ru project, Moscow

March: Viktor Krasnov, blogger, Stavropol; Alexei Kungurov, blogger, Tyumen; Konstantin Zharinov, blogger, Chelyabinsk; Said-Emi Khasiyev, chief editor, newspaper Molodyozhnaya Smena, Grozny; Andrei Bubeyev, blogger, Tver - 2 criminal charges; Olga Li, editor, newspaper Narodnyi Zhurnalist, Kursk

April: Olga Li, editor, newspaper Narodnyi Zhurnalist, Kursk; Erik Kituashvili, blogger and founder of Smotra.ru, Moscow, two charges; Nikolai Semena, Ru.krymr.com journalist, Simferopol

May: Yevgeny Pirogov, blogger, Republic of Mariy El; Konstantin Dukhonin, blogger, Perm; Kirill Formanchuk, blogger, Yekaterinburg

June: newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno, Karachai-Cherkess Republic; Yevgeny Kiselyov, freelancer, Kiev; Vladimir Luzgin, blogger, Perm

July: Boris Obraztsov, chief editor, newspaper Tridevyatyi Region, Kaliningrad; Yulia Vassilyeva, chief editor, news portal Ochevidets Media, Kurgan; Sergei Chichkanov, blogger, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District; Andrei Piontkovsky, freelancer, Moscow

August: Alexander Sukhanov, editor, Kompromat29.ru news website, Arkhangelsk; Grigory Kunis, publisher, Moy Rayon newspaper, St. Petersburg; Valery Uskov, editor, newspaper Pravda Goroda Zlatousta, Chelyabinsk Region; Sergei Kustov, chief editor, BARS TV/Radio Company, Ivanovo; Yuri Ilchenko, blogger, Crimea; Natalya Vakhonina, chief editor, Mezhdu Strok news agency, Sverdlovsk Region; Fyodor Maryasov, blogger, Krasnoyarsk Region

September: Jalaudi Geriyev, Caucasian Knot news agency correspondent, Chechen Republic; Dmitry Shevchenko, North Caucasus Ecological Watch spokesman, Krasnodar

October: Roman Sushchenko, Ukrainian journalist from UkrInform news agency, Moscow; Alexei Nazimov, chief editor, Tvoya Gazeta publication, Crimea; Ruslan Sokolovsky, blogger, Yekaterinburg; Denis Shaikin, journalist and publisher, newspaper MK Chernozemye, Kursk

November: newspaper Vozrozhdeniye Urala, Chelyabinsk; Vyacheslav Kuteinikov, blogger, Rostov-on-Don; Pavel Bolshakov, freelance contributor to newspaper Vozrozhdeniye Urala, Chelyabinsk; Irina Grebneva, editor, and Nadezhda Alisimchik, reporter, newspaper Arsenyevskiye Vesti, Vladivostok; Yelena Gura, former chief editor/director, Slovo TV/Radio Studios, Stavropol Region; Pavel Podyachev, publisher, newspaper Otrkytyi Gorodok and news website SOS NSO, Novosibirsk

December: Sergei Yeretnov, journalist and publisher, newspaper Komitet Revizor, Tatarstan; Erik Chernyshov, editor, newspaper Karatosh, Khakassia; Magomed Magomedov, journalist, newspaper Novoye Delo, Makhachkala

Illegal sacking of editor, journalist - 22, vs. 30 in 2015; 23 in 2014; 21 in 2013; 16 in 2012; 28 in 2011; 31 in 2010; 15 in 2009; 13 in 2008; 12 in 2007; and 16 in 2006

Irina Iskorneva, director, municipal newspaper Pechenga, Murmansk Region; Tatyana Britskaya, newsroom editor, newspaper Murmanskiy Vestnik, Murmansk; Oksana Riznich, chief editor, newspaper Na Rubezhe, Sakhalin Region; Olga Ovsyannikova, deputy chief editor, Redaktsiya SMI municipal unitary enterprise, Maritime Region; Yelena Vyatkina, editor, municipal newspaper Ozyorskiy Vestnik, Chelyabinsk Region; Artyom Kudinov, chief editor, Doc22 news portal, Barnaul; Maxim Solyus, chief editor, newspaper RBK, Moscow; Andrei Mikheyev, chief editor, Life channel, Moscow; Valery Yakov, chief editor, newspaper Novyye Izvestiya, Moscow; Natalya Bashkirova, chief editor, newspaper Znamya, Vladimir Region; Yekaterina Barabash, Interfax news agency journalist, Moscow; Igor Sosnovsky, chief editor, newspaper Orskaya Gazeta, Orenburg Region; Nadezhda Gongeleva, chief editor, district newspaper Prizyv, Karelia; Alexander Tairov, deputy director, Bryansk State TV/Radio Company, Bryansk; Alexei Golovin, deputy director, Bryanskaya Guberniya TV channel, Bryansk; Marina Nikolayeva, Bryanskaya Guberniya TV channel news anchor, Bryansk; Yulia Shevtsova, chief editor, newspaper Vyatskiy Nablyudatel, Kirov; Artemy Galitsyn, chief editor, newspaper Munitsipalnyi Vestnik Shushary, Leningrad Region; Larissa Ogorodnikova, chief editor, newspaper Vperyod, Perm Region; Alexander Nabatov, reporter, newspaper Delovoy Omsk, Omsk; Yuri Glazkov, Uralskiy Rabochiy columnist, Yekaterinburg

Detention by police, FSB, etc. - 63, vs. 81 in 2015; 103 in 2014; 84 in 2013; 153 in 2012; 132 in 2011; 90 in 2010; 62 in 2009; 78 in 2008; 140 in 2007; and 75 in 2006

January: Zair Akadyrov, freelancer, Simferopol; Kirill Formanchuk, blogger, Yekaterinburg; Esa Tuominen, freelancer from Finland, detained in Petrozavodsk; Yuri Ushakov, freelancer, Penza

February: Konstantin Solomatin, freelance journalist, Olga Pavlova, KavPolit correspondent, and Iida Tika, MTV 3 reporter (Finland) - all three detained in Grozny, Chechnya; Erik Kituashvili, blogger and founder of Smotra.ru project, Moscow

March: Alexei Kungurov, blogger, Tyumen; film crew with Ukrainian television channel STB, detained in Kursk Region

April: Idris Yusupov, Novoye Delo journalist, Makhachkala; Andrei Gorelikov, newspaper Domovoy Sovet correspondent, St. Petersburg; Alla Dongur-ool, journalist, newspaper Risk, Kyzyl; Arthur House, deputy editor-in-chief, The Calvert Journal (Britain), detained in Nizhny Novgorod; Vadim Shchurenkov, correspondent, newspaper Dzerzhinskoye Vremya, Nizhny Novgorod Region; Yan Katelevsky, blogger, Moscow Region

May: Yevgeny Pirogov, blogger, Republic of Mariy El; Graham Philips, freelancer, detained in Crimea; Sergey Gorodishenin, blogger, Vologda; Yan Katelevsky, blogger, Moscow Region; Pavel Kotlyar, journalist, Gazeta.ru, Moscow; Ilya Azar, special reporter, Meduza web publication, detained in Chechen Republic; Igor Burdyga, freelance reporter, Ukrainian office of Deutsche Welle, detained in Crimea; Yelena Sidorenkova correspondent, Rabochaya Demokratiya, Moscow; Zair Akadyrov, journalist, Krym.Realii web publication, Crimea

June: Robert Wrubljewski and Marczin Wyrwal, Polish journalists, detained in Smolensk; Gleb Napreyevno, Colta.ru journalist, detained in St. Petersburg; Alexander Valov, chief editor, news website BlogSochi, and HBO Real Sports film crew (USA), detained in Krasnodar Region; Shamil Abashilov, former chief editor, Molodyozh Dagestana weekly, Makhachkala; Saida Vagabova, newspaper Chernovik journalist, Makhachkala; Vladimir Kucherenko, freelancer, Moscow; Krym 24 TV channel film crew, Crimea

July: Ruslan Alibekov, photographer, newspaper Chernovik, Makhachkala; Boris Obraztsov, chief editor, newspaper Tridevyatyi Region, Kaliningrad; Kristina Gorelik, freelancer, detained in Rostov Region; REV TV film crew, Moscow

August: Yulia Shaidulina, editor, Novokuznetsk Kriminalnyi magazine, Kemerovo Region; Valery Uskov, editor, newspaper Pravda Goroda Zlatousta, Chelyabinsk Region; Sergei Kustov, chief editor, BARS TV/Radio Company, Ivanovo; Olga Sapronova, journalist, Gradus TV television project, Moscow; Marina Pustovaya, journalist, newspaper Dvornik, Kaliningrad; Anatoly Sologubov, chief editor, SotsInformBuro news agency, Volgograd

September: Yelena Kostyuchenko, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, and Diana Khachatryan, Takiye Dela journalist, both detained in North Ossetia; Said Tsarnayev, RIA Novosti photojournalist, detained in North Ossetia; Denis Korotkov, Fontanka.ru correspondent, St. Petersburg; Alexei Kryzhanovsky and Zhanna Belik, freelancers, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region

October: Vladimir Prokushev and Maxim Polyakov, 7x7 web publication, Komi Republic; Roman Sushchenko, Ukrainian journalist from UkrInform news agency, Moscow; Alexei Nazimov, chief editor, Tvoya Gazeta publication, Crimea; Andrei Sharonov, freelancer, Moscow; Ruslan Sokolovsky, blogger, Yekaterinburg

November: David Frenkel, photojournalist, online publication Yod, detained in Karelia; Andrei Grigoryev, reporter, Idel.Realii news website, Kazan; Dmitry Rebrov, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, and Dozhd TV channel film crew, detained in Moscow Region; Maxim Yarygin, correspondent, Radio Ekho Moskvy v Peterburge, and Sofya Mokhova, Rosbalt news agency correspondent, both detained in Leningrad Region; Dmitry Remizov, Rosbalt correspondent, detained in Rostov-on-Don; Pavel Podyachev, publisher, newspaper Otrkytyi Gorodok and news website SOS NSO, Novosibirsk

December: Sergei Petrov, freelance contributor to Dozhd TV channel, Krasnodar Region; Sergei Yeretnov, journalist and publisher, newspaper Komitet Revizor, Tatarstan; David Frenkel, freelance photographer for newspaper Kommersant, St. Petersburg; Alexander Trofimov, journalist with Kiev Investigative Journalism Centre, detained in Moscow; Magomed Magomedov, Novoye Delo journalist, Makhachkala; Ivan Voronin, Radio Liberty correspondent, Moscow; Alexander Bokhonov, freelance photographer, Moscow; Vassily Polinsky, Dozhd TV channel correspondent, Moscow

Threats against journalists, bloggers, and media - 44, vs. 44 in 2015; 35 in 2014; 39 in 2013; 69 in 2012; 66 in 2011; 46 in 2010; 60 in 2009; 35 in 2008; 27 in 2007; and 43 in 2006

January: Alexei Venediktov, chief editor, Radio Ekho Moskvy, Moscow; Radio Ekho Moskvy, Moscow; Yana Yanovskaya, publisher, newspaper Parma-Novosti, Perm Region; Anton Popkovich, editor, district newspaper Znamya Truda, Chelyabinsk Region

February: newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, St. Petersburg; Yevgeny Kurakin, blogger, Moscow Region; Alexander Karpov, Vesti news show correspondent, Moscow; Mikhail Dasyuk, BNK journalist, Syktyvkar; Sergei Vinokurov, correspondent, Sobesednik weekly, Moscow

March: Viktor Krasnov, blogger, Stavropol; Erik Kituashvili, blogger and founder of Smotra.ru web project, Moscow; film crew with Tula News Service, threatened in Tula Region

April: Olga Li, editor, and Konstantin Berezin, correspondent, newspaper Narodnyi Zhurnalist, Kursk; Yelena Dorovskikh, chief editor, news portal 1rnd.ru, Rostov-on-Don; Alexander Golovachev, chief editor, newspaper Volskaya Zhizn, Saratov Region; film crew with Orbita television company, Maritime Region; film crew with news portal Park72.ru, Tyumen; Mikhail Afanasyev, chief editor, web publication Novyi Fokus, Abakan

May: Victoria Kosoglyadenko, Zvezda channel correspondent, threatened in Crimea; Yelena Sarkisova, journalist, newspaper Georgiyevskaya TV NEDELYA, Stavropol Region; Roman Tsimbalyuk, UNIAN correspondent in Russia, Moscow; Andrei Koretsky, chief editor, UralDaily.ru, Chelyabinsk; Mikhail Mayorov, columnist, RIA Federal Press news agency, Perm

June: Alexander Gorny, blogger, Crimea; Alexei Togoshiyev, director, news website tUday.ru, Buryatia; Yekaterina Zakharova, Tvoy Tambov news portal correspondent, Tambov; Yegor Alekseyev, blogger, St. Petersburg

July: Eldar Bulatov, Ura.ru news agency journalist, Khanty-Mansiysk; Yermak TV channel film crew, Yekaterinburg, threatened in Sverdlovsk Region

August: Dmitry Remizov, RosBalt correspondent, Rostov-on-Don; Ayrat Shamilov, chief editor, sports reporter, Biznes-Online news agency, Kazan; Lyudmila Shiffner, journalist, newspaper Prizyv, Karelia

September: Polyarnyye Zori television company, Murmansk Region; Vakhit Niyazov, correspondent with City TV Channel One, Omsk Region; Alexander Sotnik, Sotnik-TV channel, Moscow; Sergei Ponomaryov, Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, Moscow

November: Grigory Pasko, head of Community of Investigative Journalists, threatened in Syktyvkar; Vladimir Tyulin, REN TV general director, Moscow

December: Yuri Podkopayev, anchor, TV shows Novosti.Glavnoye and Sluzhu Rossii, Moscow; Yelena Letuchaya, Revizorro TV show anchor, Moscow; film crew with Yuzhnyi Ural TV/Radio Company, Chelyabinsk Region; Mikhail Afanasyev, editor, Novyi Fokus web magazine, Abakan; news website Kerch.FM, Crimea

Denial of access to information - 613 (including bans on audio/video recording and photography; denials of accreditation; restrictions on visits to or presence at events held in government agencies, at industrial enterprises, in state institutions, etc.), vs. 405 in 2015; 392 in 2014; 327 in 2013; 358 in 2012; 404 in 2011; 314 in 2010; 320 in 2009; 280 in 2008; 238 in 2007; and 240 in 2006

Ejection of a newspaper, etc., from its premises - 3, vs. 2 in 2015 5 in 2014; 4 in 2013; 6 in 2012; 7 in 2011; 2 in 2010; 1 in 2009; 5 in 2008; and 7 in 2007

Newspaper Guberniya, Petrozavodsk; Novgorod Region branch of Russia's Union of Journalists; news website Gubdaily, Petrozavodsk)

Refusal to print (or distribute) media - 10, vs. 4 in 2015; 11 in 2014; 7 in 2013; 12 in 2012; 27 in 2011; 24 in 2010; 15 in 2009; 30 in 2008; 34 in 2007; and 50 in 2006

Newspaper Vmeste, Vologda; newspaper Tridevyatyi Region, Kaliningrad; newspaper Pravda, Krasnoyarsk; The New Times magazine, Moscow; newspaper Nasha Versiya, Saratov; newspaper Komsomolets Bryanska, Bryansk, five refusals

Disruption of TV or radio broadcasts - 5, vs. 20 in 2015; 36 in 2014; 15 in 2013; 11 in 2012; 11 in 2011; 12 in 2010; 21 in 2008; 27 in 2007; and 18 in 2006

Life78 TV channel, Leningrad Region; Radio Ekho Moskvy, in Tyumen; Ural-Inform TV channel, Perm; TNT-Syktyvkar TV channel, Syktyvkar; SNT TV channel, Smolensk Region

Closure of media - 16, vs. 21 in 2015;15 in 2014; 20 in 2013; 18 in 2012; 23 in 2011; 62 in 2010; 82 in 2009; 41 in 2008; 15 in 2007; and 26 in 2006

Newspaper Tverskaya,13, Moscow; newspaper Nastoyashcheye Vremya-Analitika, Dagestan; Yugra-Inform news agency, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District; TV TREK channel, Maritime Region; newspaper Pravda Severa, Arkhangelsk; newspaper Moya Informatsionnaya Gazeta, Moscow Region; newspaper Yarmaks, print version, Smolensk Region; newspaper Krimska Svitlitsya, Crimea; SibTV channel, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District; newspaper Novyye Izvestiya, print version, Moscow; newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda, print version, Moscow; Russkaya Planeta web resource, Moscow; newspaper Peterburgskiy Mayak, St. Petersburg; Ural.ru news website, Chelyabinsk; newspaper Pripolyarye, Karelia; Aktualno news agency, Sverdlovsk Region

Withdrawal, purchase or arrest of print run - 16, vs. 14 in 2015; 17 in 2014; 41 in 2013; 23 in 2012; 50 in 2011; 23 in 2010; 19 in 2009; 31 in 2008; 92 in 2007; and 28 in 2006

Newspaper Pravda, Vladimir; newspaper My-Patrioty Rossii, arrested in Sverdlovsk Region; newspaper Smolenskaya Narodnaya Gazeta, Smolensk; newspaper Domovoy Sovet, Yekaterinburg; newspaper Vmeste, Vologda; newspaper Krymskiy Telegraf, Simferopol; newspaper Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Chelyabinsk Region; newspaper Ryadom s Domom, Yekaterinburg; newspaper Novaya Nyurka, Yakutia; newspaper Vozrozhdeniye Urala, in Chelyabinsk Region; newspaper Utro Peterburga, St. Petersburg; newspaper Tuvinskaya Pravda, Tuva, twice; newspaper Risk, Tuva; newspaper Politsiya Rossii, Moscow; newspaper Krasnaya Stroka, Orel

Interference with internet publications - 34, vs. 21 in 2015; 59 in 2014; 61 in 2013; 73 in 2012; 76 in 2011; 58 in 2010; 57 in 2009; 40 in 2008; and 41 in 2007

Website of newspaper Novaga Gazeta, St. Petersburg; news websites Dialogweb.ru and Soldat-polevskoy.ru, both in Sverdlovsk Region; REN TV website, Moscow, twice; The New Times website, Moscow; RosKomSvoboda web news site, Moscow; web publication Otkrytaya Rossiya, Moscow; website Nemtsov-most.org, Moscow; REN TV website, Moscow; Article20 website; сайт; Akulypera.rf news site, Vladivostok; website of Russian branch of Transparency International, Moscow; news websites Pervyi Ulyanovskiy, Rupor71, Ulnovosti - all three based in Ulyanovsk; website of Krasnoye Znamya publication, Komi Republic; website Krym.Realii, Crimea; website of Dvizheniye Vmeste movement, Vologda; web news portal Shakhty.su, Rostov Region; website GolosIslama.ru; Fontanka.ru online newspaper, St. Petersburg, twice; website of Russia Today TV broadcaster, Moscow; website Krym.realii, Crimea; website Russia Today, Moscow; website ParkGagarina, Samara; websites of weekly newspapers Novoye Delo and Chernovik, news websites On Kavkaz and Kavpolit, all four in Republic of Dagestan; Vzglyad-Info news agency, Saratov; сайт Роскомнадзора, Москва; сайт «БлогСочи», Краснодарский край).

Issue of duplicate, i.e. rival, publications - 7, vs. 4 in 2015; 1 in 2014; 9 in 2013; 9 in 2012; 15 in 2011; 13 in 2010; 2 in 2009; 13 in 2008; and 14 in 2007

Newspaper Nash Oktyabrskiy Rayon, Sverdlovsk Region; newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno, Moscow; newspaper Oblastnaya Gazeta, Sverdlovsk Region, twice; newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets, in Irkutsk Region, twice; newspaper Vyatskiy Nablyudatel, Kirov

Seizure of, or damage to, photo, video or audio apparatus and computers - 38, vs. 34 in 2015; 34 in 2014; 35 in 2013; 43 in 2012; 25 in 2011; 21 in 2010; and 25 in 2009

Computer of Iida Tika, MTV3 journalist (Finland), damaged in Grozny; telephone of Lena Maria Persson-Loefgren, Sveriges Radio correspondent; notebook PC, audio recorder and modem of Mediazona journalist Yegor Skovoroda; telephone and photo camera of blogger Mikhail Solunin; telephone of Ivan Zhiltsov, spokesman for Committee to Prevent Torture - all equipment seized in Ingushetia; telephone of Andrei Shalayev, chief editor, Bessmertny Barak project, in Vladimir Region; PC of Dmitry Tsilikin, Culture and Society columnist with Chas Pik newspaper, St. Petersburg; telephone of Anton Selivyorstov, Mezhdu Strok news agency reporter, Sverdlovsk Region; office photo camera of newspaper Vzyatka, Chuvashia; computer of Umar Butayev, columnist with newspaper Chernovik, Dagestan; computer of Nikolai Semena, journalist, Krym.Realii web publication, Simferopol; photo camera of Gleb Limansky, Novaya Gazeta journalist, Moscow; PC of Alexander Rubtsov, editor of National News Service, Moscow; computers of newspaper Listok, Gorno-Altaisk; camcorder of TKT-TV channel, Leningrad Region; microphone of REN TV film crew, Moscow; office telephone of newspaper Vyberi Luchsheye, Murmansk Region; camcorder of Yermak TV channel film crew, Yekaterinburg, damaged in Sverdlovsk Region; camcorder of Yermak TV channel film crew, Yekaterinburg; camcorder of REN TV film crew, Moscow; PC of Natalya Vakhonina, chief editor, Mezhdu Strok news agency, Sverdlovsk Region; PC of Fyodor Maryasov, blogger, Krasnoyarsk Region; video camera of NTV film crew, Ufa; video apparatus of Yelena Kostyuchenko, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, and Diana Khachatryan, Takiye Dela journalist, seized in North Ossetia; video camera of Vesti-Dezhurnaya Chast news show, seized in Moscow Region; PC of Dmitry Shevchenko, North Caucasus Ecological Watch spokesman, Krasnodar; video camera of Pomorye State TV/Radio Company, Arkhangelsk; PC of Andrei Trofimov, Alternativnaya Gazeta journalist, Moscow Region; video camera of Istoki media holding, Orel Region; video camera of Bloknot-Volgograd publication, Volgograd; computer of Ksenya Babich, spokeswoman with Pravovaya Initsiativa public group, Moscow; photo camera of Go31.ru news portal, Belgorod; office computers of newspaper Gazeta Olgi Zhakovoi, Irkutsk Region; video camera of newspaper Ulyanovskaya Pravda, Ulyanovsk; computer of Erik Chernyshov, editor, newspaper Karatosh, Khakassia

Other forms of pressure and infringement of journalists' rights - 413, vs. 421 in 2015; 360 in 2014; 367 in 2013; 356 in 2012; 316 in 2011; 339 in 2010; and 385 in 2009

RUSSIA

Convictive sentence to journalist left in force in Chechen Republic

By Olga Vassilyeva, GDF correspondent in Norch Caucasian District

On New Year's Eve, the Supreme Court in Chechnya upheld the sentence passed by the Shalinsky district court in September in the case of Caucasian Knot news agency correspondent Jalaudi Geriyev - three years in penal colony for "keeping a large batch of illegal drugs". Defence lawyers, journalists and human rights activists all see this criminal case against Geriyev as trumped up from beginning to end in retaliation for his critical reporting, about which the GDF has repeatedly written in its digests (see digest 769-770 , www.gdf.ru .

The convicted journalist and his defence lawyer have described the court sentence as "legalized arbitrariness", "a result of legal outrage", and "judicial terrorism".

As we have reported, Jalaudi Geriyev - both in the first-instance court and later in the Supreme Court - fully overturned the investigators' version by presenting convincing evidence of his having been abducted and subjected to torture. The Memorial Human Rights Centre has designated the journalist as a political prisoner.

"As established with full verity, the presiding judge, going beyond the framework of a fair trial, repeatedly contacted the Investigative Department head," defence lawyer Alaudi Musayev stated. "We thrice informed the court about crimes committed by that department's officials, and each time we received refusals to start criminal proceedings [against those guilty of] abducting and torturing Geriyev".

Passions are still flying high in connection with that scandal: the presiding judge is known to have requested that the Bar Association start disciplinary proceedings against defence lawyer Musayev, while the latter, relying on the support of a group of fellow barristers, is determined to continue insisting - this time in the European Court of Human Rights - that Geriyev is not guilty.

Threats against reporter from Chechen Republic's parliament speaker

By Olga Vassilyeva, GDF correspondent in Norch Caucasian District

Caucasian Knot lawyers are busy checking whether or not an Instagram social network post by Chechen Parliament Speaker Magomed Daudov can be seen as an instance of interference with a journalist's lawful professional work falling under Criminal Code Article 144, Grigory Shvedov, the news agency's chief editor, has told journalists.

"Though the post does not mention my full name, it is written in a way leaving the reader no doubt as to who it is all about," Shvedov said. "We accept criticism normally: whenever it appears, we cross-check our information sources. But this, I guess, is for the first time ever that we face calls for violence instead of professional criticism of our specific publications".

The web news agency headed by Shvedov is one of those media which regularly highlight human rights violations in the North Caucasus. Naturally, this kind of reporting is a real nuisance to the evildoers.

Asked whether or not he would turn for help to the Union of Journalists, the chief editor said it was up to investigators and prosecutors, rather than members of the media community, to handle this issue. "Besides, as the story of Chechen journalist Jalaudi Geriyev has shown, journalistic solidarity alone is clearly insufficient," he added.

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