Comment by swdev281634
2 years ago
> personally I know nobody with the former or the latter experience
I have personally received threats of having such experience, from a director of the company I was working for at that time. Happened in Moscow around 2010. The director was from FSB, unfortunately the company forgot to mention that detail in the job ad.
> emigrant press, who often do not have any firsthand Russia experience
LOL. The reason you only read about cases like that in emigrant press, local journalists don't want to be murdered in a forest.
> local journalists don't want to be murdered in a forest
I can see this pronounced difference between Palestinean journalists and journalists specializing in Russia.
The former are present on the ground and fall victim to the current military conflict.
The latter are comfortable writing about Russia from their rented Israeli or German flats, while not setting the foot in Russia in years. That would be way too dangerous. Unsurprisingly they are not having much cred with actual Russians who do live there.
Not to mention setting their foot in the area of the conflict and having a firsthand experience of what happens there on the Russian side of the front. That would be an absolute taboo.