Russian reporters critical of Putin, new target of Moscow's missiles

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This war is fought on several fronts: military, economic and informational.

In the trench of truth, yesterday the Kremlin claimed the death of one of those investigative reporters that the leader Vladimir Putin fears so much.

Russian journalist

was one of the few professionals from that country authorized to cover the war from this side, that of the invaded.

It is easy to guess Ukraine's reasons for facilitating her work in kyiv and Lviv.

With the death of Oksana Baulina, the Moscow regime adds another notch in the belt of the eliminated critical journalists.

Since the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 at the hands of a Kremlin hitman, the list has been growing.

Unlike the

newspaper researcher , who was shot in the head,

and not on her own doorstep.

Oksana worked as a producer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation (of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalni, poisoned and imprisoned by the Putin regime).

After the organization was labeled "extremist," she had to leave Russia to continue reporting on Russian government corruption for

.

perpetrated by the Russian army for weeks when a missile hit her near the hit shopping center on the outskirts of Kiev.

This is not a random death.

Numerous witnesses assure that the missile that destroyed the shopping center had fallen a day before.

The journalists who went there to cover the news (some of them Spanish) heard the explosion in a nearby parking lot.

and two other civilians when it hit their car, a charred heap.

Baulina's murder, taking advantage of the military deployment and quite possibly using the location of her mobile phone, sends a dangerous message to all critical informants (which is the only way to exercise honest journalism) with the Russian autocrat.

It is worth remembering the murder in the distant Central African Republic of Russian reporters

, who went to investigate the link between the local government and Wagner's mercenaries, the well-known militia that goes where the army does not. Russian.

They were ambushed and shot dead near the Russian base with no investigation at all.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based organization,

.

The consequences of this persecution for Russian democracy are catastrophic.

Yesterday the Russian television channels, already surrendered to the new censorship guidelines of the Kremlin, showed aerial images of Mariupol or what remains of it, the city reduced to rubble after the carpet bombing to which it has been subjected like a Ukrainian-style Gernika .

But the announcers insisted on saying that those responsible for the destruction were "Ukrainian nationalists."

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The Ukrainian defenders had nothing to do but to bombard their own city while the Russians attacked them.

Be that as it may, and with a large part of the international media withdrawing, the Russian public is exposed to being subjected to the only version possible to broadcast, which is the one given by the Kremlin, with a re-Sovietized journalistic world, monolithic and tending to the

reissue .

Maxime Borodin

, another investigative reporter, died under mysterious circumstances in 2018 after falling from the balcony of his apartment in the Sverdlovsk region after publishing reports about the presence of Russian mercenaries in Syria, again from the Wagner group.

The Russian prosecutor's office ruled in these terms: "There is no reason to open a criminal case, there are several versions under consideration, including the accident, but there are no signs that a crime has been committed."

The reality is that according to local activist

, the journalist called a lawyer saying that several armed and camouflaged men were around his building ready to attack his flat.

Calling it an "accident" is an understatement for a mob movie.

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