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The last free press of Novaya Gazeta received plenty and published plenty. Their journalists have been murdered left and right, often leading back to Kreml.

Why do people keep saying they haven't published anything on Russia? It's simply not truth and I see that being said over and over again.




I believe you are conflating Assanges lack of publication of Russian material with Navoya Gazeta.


What do you mean by that? What I meant was that a lot of the sources for Novoya Gazeta regarding the murder of Anna Politkovskaya (as an example) who was one of their co-workers was Wikileaks. The very openly blamed Kreml/Putin. I don't know how else can I phrase it, I answered to the statement that "publish anything that would embarrass Russia".

Also "Spy Files Russia" aka a national system of online surveillance. That counts too. You can call him an asset all you want and you might be right but the statement that is repeated by the media and a lot of the Americans that they never publish anything on Russia is simply untrue.


Spy Files Russia [1]

> “These are tricks that the Russians were willing to give up,” says James Andrew Lewis, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who formerly worked as a Foreign Service officer and an information security rapporteur for the United Nations. “I actually thought it was a bit slow and belated. They probably had to get FSB clearance to release anything and that may have taken a while. Think of it as vaudeville for leakers.”

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-spy-files-russia/


> The last free press of Novaya Gazeta received plenty and published plenty.

...so?


What do you mean by so? I answered to a statement that they never published anything embarrassing Russia.




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