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https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/reporter-arrest...
This is under Biden. Why shut such a conversation down?
I don't doubt such cases exist somewhere out there. But the prevalence of such revelations is from people re-posting emigrant press, who often do not have any firsthand Russia experience for a few years now.
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.
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.
I could go on and on, but yeah. Russia fundamentally hasn't changed in the past ~few hundred years (since its founding really), unlike countries in Europe. As the world moved forward some things remained unchanged, such as preemptive compliance, learned helplessness, lack of civil society, and the culture of violence, ranks, racism and humiliation.
First I seriously doubt that other countries moved away from that. Second I don't notice these things as much here (in the capital at least). People see only what they want to see I guess...