A year after she was fired as editor of one of Russia’s most popular news websites for running afoul of the authorities, Galina Timchenko has decamped to Latvia and launched a new site to keep the flame of Russian independent media alive.
Meduza, published since last October out of a newsroom in Riga, offers an alternative to Russia’s stridently nationalist state-controlled media and the remaining independent news sources that, Timchenko said, are deferential to the authorities out of fear.
Russian media have “totally forgotten the profession’s principles … that a reporter should be uncomfortable for everyone,” Timchenko told Reuters in an interview …read more
Source: Voice of America
