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Russian TV Program on Police Violence – “Uboinyi Otdel” (The Killing Department)

A special episode of the “Professiia Reporter” (Rus: Profession reporter) programme on 17 March on  NTV was presented by Denis Arapov and titled “Uboynyy Otdel” (Rus: The killing department, also slang for police departments that deal with murder cases). It was dedicated to two recent high-profile cases of fatal police brutality which resulted in the deaths of the 52-year-old Sergei Nazarov after he was beaten and raped at Dalniy police station in Kazan in March, and of the 15-year-old Nikita Leontiev, who was beaten to death by officers at St Petersburg’s police station No 75 in January.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFdSxg7I_a0

 

https://youtu.be/bFdSxg7I_a0

New Database – Conflicts in the Russian Media – Impunity Project

The Impunity Project

The “Russia – Conflicts in the Media” website is the continuation of the Impunity Project started by an international partnership of journalists’ unions and media organizations in 2007. The two phases have involved the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ, Brussels), its member organization the Russian Union of Journalists (Moscow), and Russia’s own two leading media monitors – the Glasnost Defence Foundation and the Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations, both based in Moscow.

The new database “Conflicts in the Media” and the other resources assembled on this website (articles by monitors, overview of legislation, annual survey of media freedom and violations) complement the earlier “Deaths and Disappearances of Journalists in Russia since 1993” database. The latter was launched in June 2009 together with thePartial Justice report (see http://journalists-in-russia.org). The pioneering work in modelling and refining online versions of the two databases has been carried out under the supervision of Damian Counsell, with the assistance of Tim Almond.

The purpose of the “Deaths and Disappearances” database was to pinpoint the targeted killing of journalists in Russia since 1993, and monitor the level of impunity for such violence. The new database has a wider and more pro-active role. By documenting instances of assault, criminal prosecution, threats, dismissal, censorship and arrest, the “Conflicts in the Media” database offers a broad picture of the changing situation in different parts of the Russian Federation. More specifically, it provides an early warning of the emergence of particular threats, whether directed against the media of a region or against an individual journalist.

We are indebted to the Open Society Institute (London) which, through the IFJ, has funded both stages of the ongoing Impunity Project and has taken an active interest in its creation and further development. We also wish to thank the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media for enabling us, in the nearest future, to add past years’ records to this database.

Contacts for this project

John Crowfoot, IFJ analyst (London) – crowfoot@uwclub.net

Boris Timoshenko, GDF head of monitoring (Moscow) – boris@gdf.ru

(Presentation retrieved from the site http://mediaconflictsinrussia.org/about-this-site/).

Hate Crime in Russia – Monitoring and Support for Victims of Racist Violence

Two German NGOs have issued a report providing legal and factual information about racist violence in Russia and recommandations on the ways to provide support to victims.

The report provides legal analysis as well as results of interviews that have been made in various Russian regions in order to provide an overview analysis and to seek regional partership for building awareness network.

The research project was initiated and financed by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (Stiftung „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft“) and carried out by ReachOut Berlin.

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