Getting Away With Murder

I am a Russian living more than 8 years in Europe and I definitely do not belong to people getting "only government-filtered news". However, I completely disagree with the author of the article. That is true that we are not so impressed by number of killed journalists. There many reasons for that. The first reason is that much more Russians of other professions die every year. For example, in the army every year die almost 500 young soldiers (18-20 years old) because accidents and suicide apart from soldiers dying in active military operations. In auto crashes die more than 30 000 Russians every year. I do not have any statistic about killed business people but from coming news I can say more than hundreds businessmen die every year killed by their business competitors. We should not forget that almost every reach person in Russia (independent from political party) has a criminal past and some of them have criminal present and future. Even the ex-prime minister (the leader of liberal opposition nicknamed ???2 percents??? from his government time) tried to still two state belonging houses before to leave his position in the government. This brings us to the second reason. All newspapers belong to such people with criminal past and journalists working in the newspapers are seen by Russians as ???money hunters???. They write articles to make the newspaper???s owner happy. It does not matter is it a private newspaper/tv channel or state one. So, why should we care about them?
Unfortunately, ???money hunting??? is the leading principle in the modern Russian society. Money, money, money.... only personal success is appreciated. Therefore we do not see much difference between the political parties. It is the same *** as we say in Russia ???*** do not sink???.

I don't know why the Russians continue to turn a blind eye to this kind of autocracy. The U.S. is far from perfect, but a tremendous number of Russians just don't seem to care that Putin's regime (Medvedev's own administration is much more a subset of Putin's administration than anything else, from what I've heard) has a bad habit of killing the prominent voices taken against it.

Not to downplay the situation in Russia, but it's odd the situation along the US-Mexico border wasn't mentioned in terms of most dangerous places for reporters.

Not to downplay the situation in Russia, but it's odd the situation along the US-Mexico border wasn't mentioned in terms of most dangerous places for reporters.