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Evgeniy Maloletka, a photographer, picks his way through the aftermath of a Russian attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, in February 2022. Mstyslav Chernov/Associated Press, via PBS

We are living in the most thoroughly documented time in human existence. There are billions of us carrying cameras in our pockets, and the videos we make ricochet across the internet with astonishing ease: silly things, like dance moves and pratfalls, along with deadly serious things, like police officers murdering unarmed civilians or children choking on chemical weapons.

And yet we see through a glass darkly. We consume a stream of snippets, served to us chopped up and sometimes algorithmically curated, often stripped of context.

It is precisely because of this never-ending stream of images that the devastating new documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” seared into my brain when I saw it in a theater last week.…  Seguir leyendo »

Journalist Nicholas Daniloff with his family and President Ronald Reagan after being freed from a KGB prison in 1986. Cynthia Johnson/Getty

One evening in September 1978, I was standing by the telex machine in the Belgrade news bureau of The New York Times, where I was East European bureau chief, when it suddenly sprang to life and a message began clattering across the page from David K. Shipler, my counterpart in the Times bureau in Moscow.

“Did you send me a package here in Moscow” read the message to me in what was then Yugoslavia. “No”, I replied, “not at all”. Shipler replied: “I think I’ve just avoided a trip to Lefortovo”, the prison fortress of the KGB.

Someone had anonymously phoned Shipler in the bureau and said he had a package for him “from Andelman in Belgrade.…  Seguir leyendo »

Vladimir Putin on a phone-in, Moscow, 2021. Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/ AFP/ Getty Images

Battlefield tanks are really only half the battle. Beyond military might on the ground in Ukraine, there is another critical confrontation in which the Kremlin has a superiority that must be challenged. The information war.

Russia’s media space has reverted to a grotesque parody of the Soviet-era model. (In fact, it’s far worse, as in the latter Soviet years at least, most people knew they were being fed lies). Television and the domestic press is utterly captured. Millions are fed a daily diet of Ukrainian “fascists”, western pederasts, and nuclear revenge on Anglo-Saxon civilisation.

It’s working. A broad consensus inside Russia still supports Putin and his wretched campaign in Ukraine.…  Seguir leyendo »

Soldiers tried to help a woman, her two children and a family friend after they were hit by Russian shelling in Kyiv, but all died. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

The following images depict graphic violence.

A couple of weeks ago I came across the graphic images of bodies littering the landscape in Bucha, Ukraine, a suburb a few miles west of Kyiv. Bucha was the latest example of Russia’s barbarity in this war, but one of the first things I thought of was Jonestown.

In November 1978, Time magazine sent me to that remote settlement in Guyana to check reports that Representative Leo Ryan, a California Democrat, had been killed there while investigating allegations that a group, a cult really, called the People’s Temple was holding people against their will.…  Seguir leyendo »

Hace seis meses, fui obligado a abandonar mi casa en Rusia para evitar una pena de prisión. ¿Mi crimen? Ser un periodista independiente. Tres años atrás, fundé un portal de periodismo de investigación llamado Proekt. Esto nos valió a mí y a mi equipo el atraer, con toda su fuerza, al aparato represivo instaurado por Vladímir Putin para silenciar a los medios críticos.

Primero nos acusaron de difamación.

Después, y tras haber sido detenidos e interrogados varias veces, Proekt fue declarada una "organización indeseable". La mayoría de mis empleados, incluyéndome a mí, fuimos tildados de "agentes extranjeros". Nuestra empresa está registrada en los Estados Unidos, por lo que los salarios percibidos por nuestros empleados cuentan como financiación extranjera.…  Seguir leyendo »

Encuentro del presidente de Ucrania con periodistas extranjeros el 3 de marzo de 2022. The Presidential Office of Ukraine

Decía Churchill que “en época de guerra, la verdad es tan preciosa que debería ser protegida de la mentira por un guardián”. En nuestras sociedades democráticas, el periodismo de guerra tiene una función esencial de testimonio y vigilancia. Por eso es tan importante el rigor ético del periodista y su compromiso con los hechos.

La cobertura de la guerra iniciada por Rusia contra Ucrania el pasado 24 de febrero nos muestra la oposición entre el periodismo libre y comprometido y la información dirigida y distorsionada que presenta Rusia, lo que llamamos desinformación.

Desde la perspectiva profesional, las redacciones de los medios occidentales han incorporado nuevos recursos para mejorar su cobertura informativa.…  Seguir leyendo »

El Premio Nobel de la Paz Dimitri Muratov. Alexander Zemlianichenko

La penúltima ocasión en la que un ruso recibió el Premio Nobel de la Paz fue en 1990. Se llamaba Mijail Gorbachov y era sólo ruso a medias, porque era también soviético. No cualquier soviético, por cierto, porque era uno que había puesto fin a una guerra, aun si fría, y parecía haberle bajado la persiana a un siglo. Tampoco fue un soviético cualquiera el único otro ruso que recibió ese galardón. De hecho, el físico, opositor y referente moral Andrei Sajarov, cuyo nombre lleva otro premio, a la Libertad de Conciencia, que concede el Parlamento Europeo desde 1988, practicó una de las maneras más elegantes de ser un ciudadano soviético, que era ser antisoviético.…  Seguir leyendo »

Police detain a journalist holding a poster that reads "We will not stop being journalists" during picketing in Moscow on Aug. 21. (Denis Kaminev/AP)

“This message was created by foreign mass media performing the function of a foreign agent”. Under Russian law, this is what I have to write every time I publicly post anything online — whether it’s a cat photo on Instagram, a birthday wish for a friend or this article. I have no other choice — because I’m a journalist.

If I fail to include such a disclaimer — or if I commit one of the many other possible violations of the Russian foreign agent law meant to silence freedom of the press and freedom of speech — I risk going to prison.…  Seguir leyendo »

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks at the news media as he meets with President Biden on June 16 in Geneva. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

As September’s parliamentary elections approach, Russia has made it increasingly difficult for independent media — outlets that are neither owned nor directly controlled by the Kremlin — to continue operating. And it’s doing so whether or not the outlets criticize the Kremlin.

VTimes, an online Russian news site, shut down on June 12, Russia’s Independence Day, a month after the Kremlin designated its domain administrator a “foreign agent” — which exposed VTimes editors and journalists to criminal prosecution and possible imprisonment.

The VTimes story reveals the many tactics Russia deploys to silence independent media. Our research shows that, at least in the short run, this tactic may reduce media coverage critical of the government.…  Seguir leyendo »

De cómo YouTube trajo de regreso la política a Rusia

Por generaciones, la televisión ha ocupado un lugar prominente en los hogares rusos. Para muchos, relajarse viendo las noticias tras un largo día de trabajo es una rutina cotidiana. Se puede gritar a la cara de quienes estén en pantalla, pero sin embargo la gente sigue pegada a ella. En la era soviética, las estaciones mentían descaradamente en los seis canales; hoy mienten con más descaro todavía, y en muchos más canales.

De hecho, la Rusia del siglo veintiuno tiene apenas un canal de televisión liberal independiente: mi empleador Dozhd TV, que ha sido excluido de los principales paquetes de televisión por cable debido a la presión de las autoridades.…  Seguir leyendo »

En su conferencia de prensa anual ampliamente transmitida el mes pasado por televisión, el presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, estaba confiado y condescendiente, animado únicamente cuando criticaba a Ucrania por las escaramuzas en el Mar Negro o cuando arremetía contra las quejas “injustas” de Occidente sobre el comportamiento de Rusia. Tras aseverar que el retiro de Estados Unidos del Tratado de Fuerzas Nucleares de Alcance Intermedio de 1987 exige que Rusia desarrolle nuevas armas, dijo con desprecio: “Y que después no se quejen de que supuestamente intentamos obtener ciertas ventajas”.

El carácter de Putin era una cruza entre el embajador soviético de “Dr.…  Seguir leyendo »

The Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko gave the details of his staged death to reporters on Thursday. Credit Pool photo by Valentyn Ogirenko

There is a word, beloved by the Kremlin and all its representatives, that has yet to cross into an American lexicon that longs for such Russian transplants: provokatsiya. Literally: a provocation. Figuratively: a false-flag operation.

The poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain? Provokatsiya!

The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine? Provokatsiya!

The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential race? Provokatsiya, obviously.

Before Wednesday, it was easy to deride Kremlin cries of provokatsiya as a cynical way of directing our gaze away from the facts and past them — onto the highly improbable and the flat-out conspiratorial.…  Seguir leyendo »

When a journalist admits that he has been lying to the public for years, this usually results in a flurry of media coverage castigating the guilty party, along with a dose of self-flagellation by his employer for having failed to notice the lies sooner. When this wave of humiliating publicity ends, the offending journalist is allowed to slink away in shame.

But sometimes journalists who admit having lied for years get to be heroes for a few days, garnering praise for their honesty and bravery. These public liars get to depart the story with their heads raised high and every reason to expect to continue a career in journalism.…  Seguir leyendo »

Twenty years ago this week, The Moscow Times was launched as Russia’s first independent daily newspaper in English. As the daily’s first editor, I’d like to share some memories of what it was like to start an independent paper in the Russia of those days, and some thoughts about what it means to edit a newspaper in a place where the Kremlin continues to cast a long shadow — even if censorship has theoretically ceased to exist.

In the autumn of 1991, when I was first approached about the editing job, Moscow was still the capital of a country called the Soviet Union.…  Seguir leyendo »

It's a warm evening in the summer of 2010. I am leaving a cafe in the very center of Moscow when I notice my car is missing its license plate. I know what this means: I am being followed.

Because the senior officers in the F.S.B. (the main successor to the Soviet K.G.B.) don’t trust their agents, they demand not only an account of the subject’s movements but additional proof, in the form of a license plate, that the observation is being carried out, that the report is not made up, that the target is indeed being followed. It would be silly to pretend that I am not afraid.…  Seguir leyendo »

On the night of Nov. 6, I was attacked by two young men armed with steel rods. The assault occurred a few feet from the entrance to my house, which is just a 10-minute walk from the Kremlin.

A month later, I am still in the hospital. One of my fingers has been amputated, one of my legs and both halves of my jaw have been broken, and I have several cranial wounds. According to my doctors, I won’t be able to go back to my job as a reporter and columnist at Kommersant, an independent newspaper, until spring.

A few hours after the attack, President Dmitri Medvedev went on Twitter to declare his outrage, and he instructed Russia’s law enforcement agencies to make every effort to investigate this crime.…  Seguir leyendo »

I wish I could fly back to Russia. I have been in the United States for a year, and I am studying and working here to get experience in American journalism, known worldwide for its independence and professionalism. But in recent days it has felt as though I am too late, that the journalism of Watergate is well behind us and that reporting is no longer fair and balanced.

For years I have respected American newspapers for being independent. But no longer. Coverage of the conflict between Russia and Georgia has been unprofessional, to say the least. I was surprised and disappointed that the world's media immediately took the side of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili last week.…  Seguir leyendo »

Una tarde de octubre, sonó el teléfono. Primero desde Moscú, luego desde Roma: Anna acababa de ser asesinada. Un día nefasto para la humanidad. Un día nefasto para Rusia. Un día nefasto para Chechenia. Un día nefasto para todos nosotros y para mí, que era amigo suyo. Quizá un buen día para Putin, condecorado hace poco (a escondidas) con la Gran Cruz de la Legión de Honor por Jacques Chirac.

Anna Politkóvskaya era un ser excepcional, con un valor mental y físico que cortaba el aliento. Y, como todas las personas heroicas, con una modestia y un humor asombrosos. Imaginen un paso confiado, un rostro de ángel, una mirada luminosa disimulada tras unas gafas enormes, unas carcajadas comunicativas.…  Seguir leyendo »

Por Antonio Pérez-Ramos, doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Cambridge. Ha estudiado Filología Eslava en Cambridge y Moscú (EL PAÍS, 30/10/06):

¿Se esperaba que Anna Politóvskaya recibiera funerales de Estado? ¿Resultaba cómoda su figura para los dirigentes occidentales y su cooptación de Putin como interlocutor? La miserable nota emitida por el Kremlin y la reacción de las capitales europeas ante el crimen, disipan cualquier duda. "La ley obliga a tomar todas las medidas necesarias para proceder a una investigación objetiva sobre la trágica muerte de la periodista Anna Politóvskaya". ¿Investigación objetiva en Rusia? ¿De un asesinato? No: de una "muerte trágica" (traghichéskaya smert).…  Seguir leyendo »

Por Bernard-Henry Levy, escritor y filósofo francés, nacido en Argelia (EL MUNDO, 20/10/06):

De acuerdo. Sé que no se puede acusar a nadie sin pruebas. Sé que hay numerosos instigadores posibles de la muerte, el pasado día 6 de septiembre, de la periodista Anna Politkovskaya, vilmente asesinada de varios disparos de pistola makarov, la misma que utiliza la policía rusa. Y concedo que el ex miembro del KGB [la agencia principal de policía secreta de la extinta Unión Soviética] reconvertido en dueño y señor de todas las mafias rusas sea considerado inocente de este crimen, como cualquier otro sospechoso, mientras no se pruebe formalmente que es culpable.…  Seguir leyendo »