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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump on Putin's crackdown on journalists: 'it’s never been proven'
Source: The Guardian
Trump on Putin's crackdown on journalists: 'its never been proven'
Oliver Laughland in New York
Sunday 20 December 2015 19.12 GMT
Donald Trump on Sunday defended Russian president Vladimir Putins record on press freedom, challenging journalists to provide him with evidence that the Kremlin has ever sponsored efforts to murder reporters. The Republican frontrunner also vowed again to work closely with Russia, if elected president.
Trump was praised this week by Putin, who described the billionaire businessman as a very colourful, talented person. Putins words fuelled attacks by Trumps rivals for the Republican nomination.
But Trump, whose lead in the polls has grown after a series of inflammatory Islamophobic slurs, called the Russian presidents remarks a great honour and described Putin as a man highly respected within his own country and beyond.
Trump was called out on the platitudes during an interview with MSNBC on Friday. Asked to condemn the Kremlins alleged involvement in the assassination of reporters, he responded: Our country does plenty of killing also.
In a heated interview on ABCs This Week on Sunday, Trump said: In all fairness to Putin, youre saying he killed people. I havent seen that. I dont know that he has.
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Oliver Laughland in New York
Sunday 20 December 2015 19.12 GMT
Donald Trump on Sunday defended Russian president Vladimir Putins record on press freedom, challenging journalists to provide him with evidence that the Kremlin has ever sponsored efforts to murder reporters. The Republican frontrunner also vowed again to work closely with Russia, if elected president.
Trump was praised this week by Putin, who described the billionaire businessman as a very colourful, talented person. Putins words fuelled attacks by Trumps rivals for the Republican nomination.
But Trump, whose lead in the polls has grown after a series of inflammatory Islamophobic slurs, called the Russian presidents remarks a great honour and described Putin as a man highly respected within his own country and beyond.
Trump was called out on the platitudes during an interview with MSNBC on Friday. Asked to condemn the Kremlins alleged involvement in the assassination of reporters, he responded: Our country does plenty of killing also.
In a heated interview on ABCs This Week on Sunday, Trump said: In all fairness to Putin, youre saying he killed people. I havent seen that. I dont know that he has.
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Trump on Putin's crackdown on journalists: 'it’s never been proven' (Original Post)
Eugene
Dec 2015
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saltpoint
(50,986 posts)1. ABC's This Week should also have asked
members of Pussy Riot for their views of Mr. Putin.
I'm guessing their view might part company with Mr. Trump's.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)2. List of journalists killed in Russia Under Putin (incl. 2nd Chechen conflict)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
20002002
2000[77]
1 February Vladimir Yatsina, a photocorrespondent with ITAR-TASS. On his first and only trip to Chechnya he was kidnapped and later killed (by a group of Wahhabis some suggest).[78] Homicide [J].
10 February Ludmila Zamana, Samara. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
9 March Artyom Borovik, Sovershenno sekretno periodical and publishing house, director and journalist. Sheremetyevo-1 Airport, Moscow. Incident not confirmed [?J].
22 March Luisa Arzhieva, correspondent for Istina mira newspaper (Moscow). Avtury, Chechnya. Crossfire [?J].
17 April Oleg Polukeyev, Homicide.
1 May Boris Gashev, literary critic. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
13 May Alexander Yefremov, Chechnya. A photojournalist with west Siberian newspaper Nashe Vremya, Yefremov died when militants blew up a military jeep in which he was travelling. On previous assignments, Yefremov won acclaim for his news photographs from the war-torn region. Crossfire [J].
16 July Igor Domnikov, from Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. Struck over the head with a hammer in the stairwell of his Moscow apartment building, Domnikov lay in a coma for two months. His murderer was identified in 2003 and convicted in 2007 [3]. The men who ordered and organised the attack have been named by his paper but not charged. Homicide [J].
26 July Sergei Novikov, Radio Vesna, Smolensk. Shot in a contract killing in stairwell of his apartment building. Claimed that he often criticized the administration of Smolensk Region. Homicide [?J].
21 September Iskander Khatloni, Radio Free Europe, Moscow. A native of Tajikistan, Khatloni was killed at night in an axe attack on the street outside his Moscow apartment block. His assailant and the motive of the murder remain unknown. A RFE/RL spokeswoman said Khatloni worked on stories about the human-rights abuses in Chechnya.[79] Homicide [nJ].
3 October Sergei Ivanov, Lada-TV, Togliatti. Shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building. As director of largest independent television company in Togliatti, he was an important player on the local political scene.[80] Homicide. Gang responsible on trial [nJ].
18 October Georgy Garibyan, journalist with Park TV (Rostov), murdered in Rostov-on-Don [nJ].
20 October Oleg Goryansky, freelance journalist, press & TV. Murdered in Cherepovets, Vologda Region. Conviction [nJ].
21 October Raif Ablyashev, photographer with Iskra newspaper. Kungur, Perm Region. Homicide [nJ].
3 November Sergei Loginov, Lada TV (Togliatti). Incident not confirmed [nJ].
20 November Pavel Asaulchenko, cameraman for Austrian TV, Moscow. Contract killing. Conviction of perpetrator [nJ].
23 November Adam Tepsurkayev, Reuters, Chechnya. A Chechen cameraman, he was shot at his neighbor's house in the village of Alkhan-Kala (aka Yermolovka). Tepsurkayev filmed most of Reuters' footage from Chechnya in 2000, including the Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev having his foot amputated. Homicide (war crime) [J].
28 November Nikolai Karmanov, retired journalist. Lyubim, Yaroslavl Region. Homicide [nJ].
23 December Valery Kondakov, freelance photographer. Killed in Armavir, Krasnodar Region [nJ].
2001[81]
1 February Eduard Burmagin, Homicide.
24 February Leonid Grigoryev, Homicide [nJ].
8 March Andrei Pivovarov, Homicide.
31 March Oleg Dolgantsev, Homicide [nJ].
17 May Vladimir Kirsanov,[82] chief editor. Kurgan, Urals Federal District. Homicide [J].
2 June Victor Popkov, Novaya gazeta contributore, died in Moscow Region hospital. Wounded in Chechnya two months earlier. Crossfire [J].
11 September Andrei Sheiko, Homicide [nJ].
19 September Eduard Markevich, 29, editor and publisher of local newspaper Novy Reft in Sverdlovsk Region. Shot in the back[82] in a contract killing, homicide [J].
5 November Elina Voronova, Homicide [nJ].
16 November Oleg Vedenin, Homicide.
21 November Alexander Babaikin, Homicide [nJ].
1 December Boris Mityurev, Homicide.
2002[83]
18 January Svetlana Makarenko, Homicide.
4 March Konstantin Pogodin, Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod. Homicide.
8 March Natalya Skryl, Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog. Homicide [?J].
31 March Valery Batuyev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
1 April Sergei Kalinovsky, Moskovskij Komsomolets local edition, Smolensk. Homicide [nJ].
4 April Vitaly Sakhn-Vald, photojournalist, Kursk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 April Leonid Shevchenko, Pervoye Chtenie newspaper, Volgograd. Homicide [nJ].
29 April Valery Ivanov, founder and chief editor of Tolyattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, Samara Region.[82] Contract killing [J].
20 May Alexander Plotnikov, Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen. Homicide.
6 June Pavel Morozov, Homicide.
25 June Oleg Sedinko, founder of Novaya Volna TV & Radio Company, Vladivostok. Contract killing, explosive in stairwell [nJ].
20 July Nikolai Razmolodin, general director of Europroject TV & Radio Company, Ulyanovsk. Homicide.
21 July Maria Lisichkina Homicide [nJ].
27 July Sergei Zhabin, press service of the Moscow Region governor. Homicide [nJ].
18 August Nikolai Vasiliev, Cheboksary city, Chuvashia. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 August Paavo Voutilainen, former chief editor of Karelia magazine, Karelia. Homicide [nJ].
4 September Leonid Kuznetsov, "Periodicals of Mari-El" publishing house, Yoshkar-Ola.[84] Incident not confirmed [?J].
20 September Igor Salikov, head of information security at Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper in Penza. Contract killing [nJ].
26 September Roderick (Roddy) Scott, Frontline TV Company, Great Britain. Crossfire [J].
2 October Yelena Popova, Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
19 October Leonid Plotnikov Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
26 October Tamara Voinova (Stavropol) and Maxim Mikhailov (Kaliningrad), Dubrovka theatre siege ("Nord Ost" show), Moscow. Terrorist Act [nJ].
21 December Dmitry Shalayev, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
20032005[edit]
2003[85]
7 January Vladimir Sukhomlin, Internet journalist and editor, Serbia.ru, Moscow. Homicide. Off-duty police convicted of his murder, not those behind this contract killing [J].
11 January Yury Tishkov, sports commentator, Moscow. Contract killing [nJ].
21 February Sergei Verbitsky, publisher BNV newspaper. Chita. Homicide [nJ].
18 April Dmitry Shvets, TV-21 Northwestern Broadcasting, Murmansk. Deputy director of the independent TV-21 station (Northwestern Broadcasting), he was shot dead outside the TV offices. Shvets' colleagues said the station had received multiple threats for its reporting on influential local politicians. Contract killing [nJ].
3 July Yury Shchekochikhin, Novaya gazeta, Moscow. Deputy editor of Novaya gazeta and a Duma deputy since 1993, he died just a few days before his scheduled trip to USA to discuss the results of his journalist investigation with FBI officials. He investigated "Three Whales Corruption Scandal" that allegedly involved high-ranking FSB officials. Shchekochikhin died from an acute allergic reaction. There has been much speculation about cause of his death. Investigation into his death has been opened and closed four times. Homicide [J].
4 July Ali Astamirov, France Presse. Went missing in Nazran [?J].
18 July Alikhan Guliyev, freelance TV journalist, from Ingushetia. Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
10 August Martin Kraus, Dagestan. On way to Chechnya. Homicide [nJ].
9 October Alexei Sidorov, Tolyatinskoye Obozreniye, Togliatti. Second editor-in-chief of this local newspaper to be murdered. Predecessor Valery Ivanov shot in April 2002.[82] Homicide. Supposed killer acquitted [?J].
24 October Alexei Bakhtin, journalist and businessman, formerly Mariiskaya pravda. Mari El. Homicide [nJ].
30 October Yury Bugrov, editor of Provincial Telegraph. Balakovo, Saratov Region. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 December Pyotr Babenko, editor of Liskinskaya gazeta. Liski, Voronezh Region. Homicide [nJ].
2004[86]
1 February Yefim Sukhanov, ATK-Media, Archangelsk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
23 March Farit Urazbayev, cameraman, Vladivostok TV/Radio Company, Vladivostok. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
2 May Shangysh Mongush, correspondent with Khemchiktin Syldyzy newspaper, Tuva. Homicide [?J].
9 May Adlan Khasanov, Reuters reporter, died in Grozny bomb attack that killed Chechen President Ahmed Kadyrov. Terrorist Act [J].
9 June Paul Klebnikov, chief editor of newly established Russian version of Forbes magazine, Moscow. Contract killing, alleged perpetrators put on trial and acquitted. Homicide [J].
1 July Maxim Maximov, journalist with Gorod newspaper, St Petersburg. Body not found. Homicide [J].
10 July Zoya Ivanova, TV presenter, Buryatia State Television & Radio Company, Ulan Ude, Buryatia. Homicide [nJ].
17 July Pail Peloyan, editor of Armyansky Pereulok magazine, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
3 August Vladimir Naumov, nationalist reporter, Cossack author (Russky Vestnik, Zavtra), Moscow Region. Homicide [nJ].
24 August Svetlana Shishkina, journalist, Kazan, Tatarstan. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
24 August Oleg Belozyorov, Moscow-Volgograd flight. Terrorist Act [nJ].
18 September Vladimir Pritchin, editor-in-chief of North Baikal TV & Radio Company, Buryatia. Homicide [?J].
27 September Jan Travinsky (St Petersburg), in Irkutsk as political activist for election campaign.[87] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2005[88]
23 May Pavel Makeyev, reporter for TNT-Pulse Company, Rostov-on-Don. Run down while photographing illegal street racing. Incident not Confirmed [?J].
28 July Magomed Varisov, political analyst and journalist, shot dead near his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He "had received threats, was being followed and had unsuccessfully sought help from the local police" according to Committee to Protect Journalists. Sharia Jamaat claimed responsibility for the murder.[89] Homicide [J].
31 August Alexander Pitersky, Baltika Radio reporter, Saint Petersburg. Homicide [?J].
3 September Vladimir Pashutin, Smolensky Literator newspaper, Smolensk. Not Confirmed [nJ].
13 October Tamirlan Kazikhanov, head of press service for Anti-Terrorist Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs's Main Department for the Southern Federal District, Nalchik. Crossfire [J].
4 November Kira Lezhneva, reporter with Kamensky rabochii newspaper, Sverdlovsk Region.[90] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
20062008[edit]
2006[91]
8 January Vagif Kochetkov, newly appointed Trud correspondent in the region, killed and robbed in Tula. Acquittal [nJ].
26 February Ilya Zimin, worked for NTV Russia television channel, killed in Moscow flat. Suspect in Moldova trial. Acquittal [nJ].
4 May Oksana Teslo, media worker, Moscow Region. Arson attack on dacha. Homicide [nJ].
14 May Oleg Barabyshkin, director of radio station, Chelyabinsk. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
23 May Vyacheslav Akatov, special reporter, Business Moscow TV show, murdered in Mytyshchi Moscow Region. Killer caught and convicted. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 June Anton Kretenchuk, cameraman, local Channel 38 TV, killed in Rostov-on-Don. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
25 July Yevgeny Gerasimenko, journalist with Saratovsky Rasklad newspaper. Murdered in Saratov. Conviction [nJ].
31 July Anatoly Kozulin, retired freelance journalist. Ukhta, Komi. Homicide [nJ].
8 August Alexander Petrov, editor-in-chief, Right to Choose magazine Omsk, murdered with family while on holiday in Altai Republic. Under-age murderer charged and prosecuted. Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
17 August Elina Ersenoyeva, reporter for Chechenskoye obshchestvo newspaper. Abducted in Grozny, Chechnya. Missing [?J].
13 September Vyacheslav Plotnikov, reporter, local "Channel 41" TV, Voronezh. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
7 October Anna Politkovskaya, commentator with Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, shot in her apartment building's elevator;.[92][93][94][95] Four accused in contract killing, acquitted in February 2009 [J].
16 October Anatoly Voronin, Itar-TASS news agency, Moscow. Homicide [nJ].
28 December Vadim Kuznetsov, editor-in-chief of World & Home. Saint Petersburg magazine, killed in Saint Petersburg. Homicide [nJ].
2007[96]
14 January Yury Shebalkin, retired journalist, formerly with Kaliningradskaya pravda. Homicide in Kaliningrad. Conviction [nJ].
20 January Konstantin Borovko, presenter of "Gubernia" TV company (Russian: "Губерния" , killed in Khabarovsk.[43] Homicide. Conviction [nJ].
2 March Ivan Safronov, military columnist of Kommersant newspaper. Died in Moscow, cause of death disputed.[97][98] Incident not Confirmed. Investigation under Incitement to Suicide (Article 110) [?J].
15 March Leonid Etkind, director at Karyera newspaper. Abduction and homicide in Vodnik, Saratov Region. Conviction [nJ].
5 April Vyacheslav Ifanov, Novoye televidenie Aleiska, cameraman. Previously attacked by local military. Aleisk, Altai. Incident not Confirmed [?J].
Marina Pisareva, deputy head of Russian office of German media group Bertelsmann was found dead at her country cottage outside Moscow in April[99][100]
2008
(Putin's final months as president)
8 February Yelena Shestakova, former journalist, St Petersburg. Killer sent to psychiatric prison. Homicide [nJ].
21 March Gadji Abashilov, chief of Dagestan State TV & Radio Company VGTRK, shot in his car in Makhachkala. Homicide [?J].
21 March Ilyas Shurpayev, Dagestani journalist covering Caucasus on Channel One, was strangled with a belt by robbers in Moscow.[101][102] Alleged killers tracked to Tajikistan and convicted there of his murder. Homicide [?J].
The Medvedev presidency[edit]
20082011[edit]
2008[103]
31 August Magomed Yevloyev, Ingush oppositionist, founder of Ingushetiya.ru, Moscow-based lawyer, shot on return to country while in custody of Ingush police officers.[104][105][106] Killer convicted of negligent homicide, sentence subsequently mitigated. Homicide. Conviction [J].
2 September Abdulla Alishayev, (aka Telman Alishayev), TV presenter on Muslim channel, shot dead in car, Makhachkala.[107] Homicide [J].
2009[108]
4 January Shafig Amrakhov, editor of news agency RIA 51, Murmansk, was shot in stairwell entrance from the traumatic pistol on 30 December 2008 and died in hospital.[109] Homicide [nJ].
4 January Vladislav Zakharchuk, manager of the Arsenyevskie Vesti newspaper in Vladivostok. Died in a fire under suspicious circumstances.[110]
19 January Anastasia Baburova, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow. On 19 January Stanislav Markelov, lawyer for Novaya gazeta, anti-fascist activist and opponent of human rights abuses in Chechnya, was shot and killed in the centre of Moscow.[111] With him died Anastasia Baburova a trainee reporter with Novaya Gazeta, and a fellow anti-fascist activist.[112][113] In early November 2009 a man and a woman were arrested for the killing.
30 March Sergei Protazanov, layout artist with Grazhdanskoye soglasie newspaper, Khimki nr. Moscow. Link to work questioned. Incident not Confirmed [nJ].
29 June Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, chief editor of Corruption and Criminality newspaper in Volgograd died after a severe head injuries in June. He was allegedly struck in the temple by the unknown assailant, although the local police claims fall from the ladder as the reason for injury.[114]
15 July Natalia Estemirova,[115] a human rights activist with Memorial, who worked with journalists from Novaya gazeta, especially Anna Politkovskaya, and occasionally published in the newspaper herself, having been a TV reporter pre-1999. After years of investigating murders and kidnapping in Chechnya Estemirova was herself abducted that morning in Grozny and found, shot dead, by the roadside several hours later in neighbouring Ingushetia.[116] Homicide [J].
11 August Malik Akhmedilov,[117] deputy chief editor of the Avar language newspaper Khakikat (Truth), was found shot dead near the Dagestan capital Makhachkala. Homicide [?J].
25 October Maksharip Aushev was shot dead in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.[118] When Magomed Yevloyev gave up running Ingushetia.ru, and his replacement (Rosa Malsagova) had to flee abroad to escape threats and harassment, Aushev ran the successor website Ingushetia.org. Link to past or present work unclear. Homicide [?J].
16 November Olga Kotovskaya, Kaskad radio & TV company, Kaliningrad. Died in a fall from 14th storey-building under suspicious circumstances. Investigation under "Incitement to suicide" (Article 110).[119] [?J].
2010[120]
20 January Konstantin Popov died from a beating received a fortnight earlier by Russian police, in a detoxification centre for drunk and disorderly.[121] 26-year-old police sergeant charged with his killing. Homicide [nJ].
23 February Journalist Ivan Stepanov was stabbed to death at his dacha.[122] The murderers have been arrested and sentenced to 16 and 18 years of prison.[123] Homicide [nJ].
20 March Maxim Zuyev was found murdered in a Kaliningrad flat he was renting. Seven years earlier he was interrogated by the city's police for publishing an anonymous letter alleging corruption among high-ranking police officers in the enclave.[124][125][126][127] "Crime solved", says Investigative Committee.
5 May Shamil Aliyev, founder of two radio stations and a director of TV network was shot in his car by two unidentified attackers, who also killed his bodyguard and wounded driver.[128][129] Homicide [?J]
13 May Said Magomedov, director of local television station, Sergokalinsky district, Dagestan. Shot dead when travelling with repairmen to restore sabotaged TV transmitter. Terrorist act [J].
25 June Dmitry Okkert, Moscow. A presenter with the Expert TV channel, Okkert was found stabbed to death in his own apartment. The director of the Expert media holding, Valery Fadeyev, does not believe that the brutal killing of his colleague was linked to his journalistic activities. Homicide [?J].
25 July Bella Ksalova, Cherkessk. A correspondent for the Caucasian Knot website and news agency, Ksalova died in a hospital after being hit by a car near her home. The driver was sentenced to 3 1/4 years in penal colony.[130]
1 August Malika Betiyeva, Grozny-Shatoi highway. The deputy chief editor of Molodyozhnaya smena, and Chechnya correspondent of the "Dosh" (Word) magazine, died with four of her immediate family when a speeding jeep crashed into her car.[131]
11 August Magomed Sultanmagomedov, Makhachkala. The director of the "Makhachkala TV" station died in the hospital after his car was shot at from another vehicle. This was preceded by an attempted bombing in 18 November 2008.[132] [J]
23 October Yevgeny Fedotov died in a hospital due to the head injuries received in a violent quarrel with his neighbour. The latter has been charged for manslaughter.[133]
2011
15 December Gadzhimurat Kamalov, Makhachkala. Investigative reporter shot 6 times in a drive-by outside his newspaper's offices.[134][135]
Under Putin[edit]
2012[edit]
7 July - Alexander Khodzinsky, journalist in Tulun, was stabbed to death by a local businessman Gennady Zhigarev, former deputy.[136]
5 December - Kazbek Gekkiev, journalist for local TV programmes in Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot dead on street of Nalchik, after threats from local wahhabi extremists.[137]
2013[edit]
9 July - Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, deputy editor of the Novoe Delo was killed (after numerous death threats and previous assassination attempt in January 2013[138]) by several gunshots while he was driving just 50 metres from his house on the outskirts of provincial capital Makhachkala.[139][140][141]
2014[edit]
1 August - journalist and human rights activist Timur Kuashev was abducted from his home and later found dead in Kabardino-Balkaria.[142] Kuashev was previously stopped by local police for a number of times and received death threats.[143]
When you read the descriptions/causes of their deaths, what more proof does one need?
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)3. How many were killed by Chechen terrorists?
It seems like you're conflating different things.
Somebody (outside Russia ) should do a study of these cases to determine if there is a pattern; specifically if very many of them wrote or published stuff "unsupportive" of Putin or the Kremlin.