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Nina Ognianova

Nina Ognianova is coordinator of CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Program. A native of Bulgaria, Ognianova has led CPJ advocacy missions to Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.

2009


Blog | Russia

Beketov still recovering from attack a year later in Russia

By Nina Ognianova/Europe & Central Asia Program Coordinator
Mikhail Beketov before he was brutally beaten and left for dead in 2008. (Eco Oborona)

Those familiar with Mikhail Beketov’s ordeal describe his survival as nothing short of a miracle. The once fit, towering 51-year-old who campaigned on environmental issues and criticized his city government’s policies through the pages of his newspaper is now gone. But the former editor of Khimkinskaya Pravda, an independent publication that exposed the blunders of the Khimki administration headed by Mayor Vladimir Strelchenko, has a fierce desire to return to normal life, or at least some semblance of it. He has a long way to go and he needs our help.

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December 4, 2009 3:41 PM ET | | Comments (1)
Blog | Belgium, CPJ, Russia, UK

Russia, EU tell CPJ they will act on Russian murders

By Nina Ognianova/Europe & Central Asia Program Coordinator

On September 15, a CPJ delegation released a special report in Moscow on impunity in journalist killings committed in Russia under the country’s current leadership. The report, Anatomy of Injustice, garnered an unusual amount of attention from the Russian media. Our press conference at the Independent Press Center was packed with journalists, both domestic and international; representatives from 20 news agencies, print and online publications, and radio and television outlets covered the release. The high attendance was a clear sign of the magnitude of the issue and the urgent need for it to be addressed.

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September 21, 2009 4:49 PM ET |
Blog | Russia

Murder pushes Novaya Gazeta to request guns

By Nina Ognianova/Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator

In a November 2007 interview, just before receiving CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, Dmitry Muratov, the editor of the embattled Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, recalled the loss of three colleagues to work-related murders in six years. "We have suffered war-like casualties," Muratov said. 

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January 23, 2009 2:33 PM ET | | Comments (5)

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