RIGA, Latvia—When prosecutors in Berlin confirmed last week that they were opening an investigation into a possible assassination attempt targeting the exiled Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko, they cast a light on one more twist in the treacherous path that independent Russian journalists have been traveling since their country launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Kostyuchenko’s drama, her survival of what investigative journalists at Bellingcat and the Insider say was likely a plot by Russian intelligence agencies, was a harrowing, life-threatening ordeal. In that sense, it perhaps makes the travails of her hundreds of colleagues, now turned into a vast diaspora, seem mild by comparison. Even so, it adds to their worries. Reporters Without Borders has sounded the alarm about the safety of exiled Russian journalists.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 25, 2023 00:25 UTC