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Oktoberlezing door Galina Timchenko: The Kremlin crackdown

On October 25th 2021, Raam op Rusland will be organizing the fifth annual October Lecture together with debate center Rode Hoed. This year, Galina Timchenko of Russian news website Meduza will be shedding light on the deteriorating state of press freedom in Russia. The lecture will be followed by a debate with the Moscow-based Dutch journalist and publisher Derk Sauer. After the formal abolition of censorship in 1991 Russia witnessed a period of almost 30 years of press freedom. The collapse of communism led to the gradual development of quality newspapers, and serious investigative journalists started doing what journalism is for: acting as watchdogs. Putin’s new wave of media suppression ends that development. Manipulation of disinformation and state control of the media and the internet again restrict our knowledge of what is going on in Russia. What does that mean and how will we be able to stay informed about our eastern neighbour? In the run-up to the Duma elections of 17-19 September of 2021, the authorities started a crackdown on the independent press. In May 2021 the ministry of Justice declared Meduza a ‘foreign agent’, thus robbing it from its advertisement revenues and most of its Russian contributors. This summer most independent media in Russia itself were harassed and attacked as well. Even individual journalists are now stigmatised as ‘foreign agents’, which makes working as a journalist in Russia next to impossible. ‘Foreign agents’ have openly to declare their ‘status’ at literally every posting, printing or social media activity, which makes them pariahs to work with. In the course of this year 6 independant newsorganisations and 20 individual journalists were added to the list. Galina Timchenko witnessed it all. Starting her journalistic career in the 90s with the newspaper Kommersant, she later became editor-in-chief of independent news website Lenta.ru. In 2014 the authorities took control of Lenta and she left for Riga to set up the English- and Russian-language news website Meduza, nowadays one of the best read media outlets about Russia. In her October Lecture Galina Timchenko sheds light on the bumpy history of independent journalism in Russia and answers the question: are we returning to Soviet times? The lecture will be followed by a debate with Dutch publisher Derk Sauer, who has facilitated and funded independent media in Russia for more than 30 years. Abonneer je op het YouTube-kanaal van de Rode Hoed: bit.ly/3jXhwSk Volg de Rode Hoed: web.facebook.com/DeRodeHoed instagram.com/rodehoed twitter.com/DeRodeHoed linkedin.com/company/de-rode-hoed