{"id":3410,"date":"2022-03-08T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:41:45","slug":"around-150-journalists-from-17-newsrooms-have-left-russia-since-the-beginning-of-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/around-150-journalists-from-17-newsrooms-have-left-russia-since-the-beginning-of-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 150 journalists from 17 newsrooms have left Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least 150 journalists from 17 newsrooms have left Russia since the outbreak of military action by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agents.media\/nezavisimye-zhurnalisty\/\">Agents.media<\/a> portal reports.&nbsp; The portal writes that the reason they are leaving includes the introduction of criminal punishment for &#8220;false&#8221; about the war and a massive media blackout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Agents.media, a significant number of journalists have left several newsrooms in recent days. For example, almost the entire editorial staff of the online publication Meduza in Moscow &#8211; around 20 people. Journalists from Dojdi TV (\u0414\u043e\u0436\u0434\u044c), Eho Moskv\u00ee (\u042d\u0445\u043e \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u044b) and Novaia Gazeta (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0413\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430) have also left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the journalists have spoken publicly about their departure, including Dojdi editor-in-chief Tihon Dziadko, Dojdi presenter Mikhail Fishman and Republic editor-in-chief Dmitry Kolezev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Among those who have left the Russian Federation are correspondents from a number of Western media institutions &#8211; a big number of BBC Russian-language staff (at least 15 people), Bloomberg and Radio Liberty (\u0420\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e \u0421\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0430).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the website&#8217;s description, a number of reporters and investigative journalists who have become victims of &#8220;repression in their own country&#8221; work anonymously in the Agents.media newsroom. The newsroom says it has chosen to operate anonymously for security reasons, so that reporters are not sanctioned or arrested. The founder and editor-in-chief of Agents.media is Roman Badanin, who has held senior positions at Dojdi, RBC and other media institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 4, President Putin signed a law on criminal liability with up to 15 years&#8217; imprisonment for false news about the actions of the Russian military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 150 journalists from 17 newsrooms have left Russia since the outbreak of military action by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Agents.media portal reports.&nbsp; The portal writes that the reason they are leaving includes the introduction of criminal punishment for &#8220;false&#8221; about the war and a massive media blackout. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent.jpg",1500,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-300x100.jpg",300,100,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-768x256.jpg",768,256,true],"large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-1024x341.jpg",1024,341,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent.jpg",1500,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent.jpg",1500,500,false],"jannah-image-small":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-220x150.jpg",220,150,true],"jannah-image-large":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-390x220.jpg",390,220,true],"jannah-image-post":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-780x470.jpg",780,470,true],"awsm_team":["https:\/\/media-azi.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/agent-500x500.jpg",500,500,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"DISABLED Gancev Vasile","author_link":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/author\/vgancev\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"At least 150 journalists from 17 newsrooms have left Russia since the outbreak of military action by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Agents.media portal reports.&nbsp; The portal writes that the reason they are leaving includes the introduction of criminal punishment for &#8220;false&#8221; about the war and a massive media blackout.&hellip;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-azi.md\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}