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share Print A Russian journalist who believes he was targeted by investigators for his expose on massive oil theft in western Siberia has been convicted on blackmail and pornography charges and sentenced to eight years in prison. A court in the city of Surgut, in Russia’s oil-rich Khanty-Mansi autonomous district, handed down the verdict and sentence against journalist Eduard Shmonin on May 14, both Shmonin and his lawyer told RFE/RL s Russian Service, known locally as Radio Svoboda. The Khanty-Mansi regional prosecutor s office also Investigative reporting gathered by Shmonin, who owned and ran websites filled with kompromat, or compromising materials on local officials and entrepreneurs, was a central pillar of an independent Radio Svoboda investigation into the industrial-scale theft of oil from Russia’s pipeline network. ....
Journalists in Trouble Newsletter Embed share width No media source currently available 0:00 1:25:34 0:00 VIDEO - When Journalism is Considered a Crime: The Risks of Covering Protest Movements in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Share A Moscow court has agreed to hear a libel lawsuit filed by Aleksei Navalny against Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov over comments he made linking U.S. spies with the jailed opposition politician. Open Media group quoted a representative of the Presnensky district court on May 5 as saying that Navalny, who is serving a prison term in a penal colony, will be able to take part in the hearing if he wishes and if the judge agrees to it. The date of the hearing into the lawsuit filed by Navalny in late March is yet to be determined. It is the second lawsuit Navalny has filed against Peskov in defense of his honor, dignity, and business reputation. ....
Russian journalist Eduard Shmonin believes he was targeted by investigators for his exposé on massive oil theft in western Siberia. He's now facing up to 11 years in prison in a verdict expected next week. ....