At least 1,000 Russian journalists have fled their country in the nearly 12 months since Moscow invaded Ukraine, according to a new report on the state of the internet in Russia.
A number of mostly European countries have “accepted and helped keep and continue” the journalists’ work as Russia moved swiftly to clamp down on independent wartime reporting, the legal aid group Setevye Svobody (Net Freedoms Project) said Thursday.
More than three dozen journalistic teams and professional bloggers have found refuge in European countries like the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as the South Caucasus republic of Georgia, it said.
At least 1,000 Russian journalists have fled their country in the nearly 12 months since Moscow invaded Ukraine, according to a new report on the state of the internet in Russia.
A number of mostly European countries have “accepted and helped keep and continue” the journalists’ work as Russia moved swiftly to clamp down on independent wartime reporting, the legal aid group Setevye Svobody (Net Freedoms Project) said Thursday.
More than three dozen journalistic teams and professional bloggers have found refuge in European countries like the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as the South Caucasus republic of Georgia, it said.
