Over the past year, at least 504 Russian media employees from 27 publications have moved to permanent jobs abroad. Most of them left in the last six months – after the start of the war in Ukraine.
About 500 journalists left Russia after the crackdown and the start of the war. This was reported by the Russian edition of the Project.
“Over the past year, at least 504 Russian media employees from 27 publications moved to a permanent place of work abroad, according to Project calculations, based on a survey of editorial staff. Most of them has left in the last six months – after the start of the war in Ukraine. We carried out this calculation while preparing a large study on the state of the media during the period of total censorship, “said the message.
It is reported that the entire editorial staff of the Russian Federation has left the editorial offices of Medusa, Project, Important Stories, the BBC’s Russian service, Mediazone, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s media projects, most of the employees of Radio Liberty, in Current Time. project and so on.
Most journalists from the Russian Federation (about 230) went to Riga, in second place – Tbilisi (more than 90 Russian journalists), in third – Vilnius (about 65).
Some Western publications chose more distant destinations, in particular, Bloomberg brought employees of the Russian bureau to Dubai, according to the Project.
“With the outbreak of war, the independent Russian media is facing new bans and censorship. A study by the Project, conducted together with the Media Rights Protection Center, shows that from February 24 to the end of July, blocked by “Roskomnadzor the websites of more than 90 sources of information in Russia. In total, the department blocked more than 5,500 pages on the Internet on various topics, Roskomsvoboda calculated earlier,” the report said.
Recall that the State Security Service of Latvia has warned the country’s top officials about the dangers associated with the fact that more and more Russian media companies are starting to work here.
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Source: korrespondent
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