'We Are a Threat to Him': Norwegian Editor Defies Putin as Half His Newsroom Makes Russia's Wanted List
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The Norwegian newspaper Barnes Opserfer has become a haven for exiled Russian journalists, who continue to cover their country despite blocking and prosecutions, based on a non-profit funding model that protects their independence.
The Barents Observer was considered an "undesirable organization" by the Kremlin.
Half of the journalists at a small Norwegian news outlet are on Russia's most wanted list, with several sentenced to years in prison. Despite threats and persecution by the Russian government, the journalists refuse to be silenced. The British newspaper The Guardian reports on the work of the Barents Observer, an independent news outlet in the town of Kirkenes in northern Norway, close to the Russian border. It employs, among others, Russian jou…
Free and independent journalism is a threat to any dictatorship, journalists say
Staff at the Barents Observer, a journalist-owned outlet near the Norway-Russia border, face rising threats from Russia, which has half of them on a wanted list (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Staff at the Barents Observer, a journalist-owned outlet near the Norway-Russia border, face rising threats from Russia, which has half of them on a wanted list — Exiled journalists at the Barents Observer face growing intimidation as Moscow seeks to control media beyond its borders
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