Liza Osetinskaya on Journalistic Freedom Under Putin

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🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Shortly before last Sunday's election in Russia, Alina Polyakova spoke to Liza Osetinskaya, editor of The Bell and former editor of Forbes Russia and independent Russian news agency RBC. They discussed the Kremlin’s approach to censorship and how the Putin regime reacted when RBC, under Osetinskaya’s leadership, began covering the Panama Papers.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	Not only Putin but administration like people around Putin too, considered
0:38.6	Panama papers as a punch against Putin personally. For them it was not a story
0:44.2	about President of Azerbaijan, Prime Minister of Iceland. For them it was clear
0:49.0	focus on Putin. Also I think in their impression this only could be
0:55.2	leaked with the help of the government, any government, I don't know which
0:58.2	government but they don't believe in traditional old-fashioned journalism.
1:04.0	They only believe in leak. Another thing is that they might think there was a
1:09.2	certain state finance behind some organizations that released Panama
1:14.6	papers. This is a red flag for the crown. So they immediately connect money
1:21.0	that came from the state with journalism that they don't consider as
1:25.5	independent institution at all and they put it together they have a script of
1:32.0	foreign government affecting personally Putin. I'm Alina Plyakova and you're
1:37.6	listening to the Russia series and the LawFair podcast March 20th 2018.
1:42.8	Joining me on the podcast is Lisa Szynitskaya, an independent Russian
1:47.9	journalist and founder of The Bell, a new news site to help us all understand
1:52.7	the real Russia today. Before launching The Bell, Lisa worked for many years in
1:57.4	Moscow as editor-in-chief of Russian Forbes and RBC, an independent Russian
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