Comment by thriftwy

> 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.