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A visual timeline of the deliberate<br>destruction of independent media in Russia. <br> </p>
<p style="font-size: .9vw; font-family: IBM Regular;"> Project by Alina Spatz, RISD class of 2024.
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<p class="month">January 1, 2000</p>
<p class="event">President Boris Yeltsin resigns and gives the presidency to Prime Minister, and former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin. Months later Putin wins the 2000 presidential election. </p>
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<p class="event">Media Most, the parent company of Russia's<br>largest independent TV network, is raided. </p>
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<p class="event">Vladimir Gusinsky, the owner of Media Most, is arrested. To get out, he gives control of the NTV independent channel to state-dominated gas monopoly Gazprom. </p>
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<p class="event">Natalya Skryl, a business reporter for Nashe Vremya, is murdered.</p>
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<p class="event">Valery Ivanov, editor of the independent newspaper Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye who exposed government corruption, is murdered. </p>
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<div class="f4"> <p class="month">July, 2000</p>
<p class="event">Igor Domnikov, Novaya Gazeta reporter and special-projects editor, is murdered.</p>
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<p class="event">TVS, Russia's only remaining independent TV station, is taken off air </p>
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<p class="event">Valery Ivanov, editor of the independent newspaper Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye who exposed government corruption, is murdered.</p>
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<p class="event">TVS, Russia's only remaining independent<br>TV station, is taken off air </p>
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<div class="h3"><br><br><br><br><br> <p class="date">2004</p>
<p class="month">March, 2004</p> <p class="event">Vladimir Putin is re-elected for a second term. </p>
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<p class="month">August, 2005</p>
<p class="event">Moscow bans journalists of the ABC from working in Russia after the network aired an interview with a leader of the Chechen independence movement. </p>
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<p class="event">Journalist Anna Politikovskaya, known for her opposition to Russia's invasion in Chechnya, is shot dead in a contract killing.</p>
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<p class="event">Paul Kiebnikov, editor of Russian Forbes, is murdered. </p>
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<p class="event">Prominent journalist and political activist Anna Politikovskaya, known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and Russian authorities, is shot dead in an apparent contract killing. Since 2006, there have been 20 recorded journalists’ killings and 63 violent attacks on reporters.</p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-top:-2.2vw; ">2008</p>
<p class="month">March 2, 2008</p>
<p class="event">As he was then constitutionally limited to two consecutive presidential terms, Putin is elected as prime minister under president Dmitry Medvedev.</p>
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<p class="date"style="text-align:right;padding-top:3.8vw; margin-right:8vw;">2009</p>
<p class="month" style="text-align:right; margin-right:8vw;">December, 2009</p>
<p class="event" style="text-align:right; margin-right:8vw;">Independent, international, and Islamic Chechen internet agency kavzaccenter.ru is blocked. </p>
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<p class="event" style="padding-right: 2vw;padding-bottom:1vw;margin-left: 3vw;">Libel, or written defamation, is re-criminalised. </p>
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<p class="month"style="padding-right: 1.5vw;margin-left: 3vw;">November, 2012</p>
<p class="event"style="padding-right: 2vw;margin-left: 3vw;padding-bottom:1vw;">The foreign agent law, which applies to non-government organizations that receive international funds or donations, takes effect. It demonizes public advocacy groups, especially those that challenge the government. </p>
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<p class="month"style="padding-right: 1.5vw;margin-left: 3vw;">November, 2012</p>
<p class="event"style="padding-right: 2vw;margin-left: 3vw;padding-bottom:1vw;">The internet blacklist law takes effect. It is abused to block criticism of the federal government and local administrations. </p>
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<p class="month">March, 2012</p>
<p class="event">Vladimir Putin is re-elected. Evidence of manipulated elections, erasable ballot pens, and ballot stuffing is filmed and uploaded to the internet. </p>
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<p class="event" style="width:60%; margin-left:1vw; padding-top: 29vw;">The government quickly cracks <br>down on election protesters <br>and dissidents, launching persecutions against mass media <br>and individual Russians. </p>
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<p class="month" style="margin-top:-1.3vw">March, 2013</p>
<p class="event">The websites of Grani and Ezhednevny <br>Zhurnal are blocked. </p>
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<p class="date"style="margin-top:0vw">2013</p>
<p class="month">June, 2013</p>
<p class="event">The Gay propaganda law is passed. It bans the distribution of information about LGBT people to minors.</p>
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<p class="month">November, 2013</p>
<p class="event">The Euromaidan protests, known as “the revolution of dignity” against the Putin-backed government, begin in Ukraine. In February 2014, president Viktor Yanukovych flees the country. </p>
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<p class="month" style=" padding-right: 2vw;">May, 2014</p>
<p class="event" style="margin-left:8vw; padding-right: 2vw;">The bloggers law is passed. It gives blogs the restrictions of major publications, including a ban on anonymity and legal responsibility for comments. </p>
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<p class="month">March, 2014</p>
<p class="event">Alexei Navalny's blog, Kasparov.ru is blocked by the government for "making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events" </p>
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<p class="month"style=" margin-top: 1vw;" >March, 2014</p>
<p class="event"> Putin takes advantage of Ukraine's destabalized government and invades and annexes Crimea. </p>
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<p class="date">2015</p>
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<div class="s3"> <p class="month"style="margin-left:-6vw;padding-top:.8vw;">October, 2014</p>
<p class="event"style="margin-left:-6vw;">The Internet Archive's Wayback <br>Machine website is blocked. </p>
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<p class="month"style="margin-top:-.6vw;">September, 2015</p>
<p class="event"style="padding-left:19vw;"> Russia begins its military intervention in the Syrian civil war, contributing to the untold suffering of millions of Syrians.</p>
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<p class="date"style="padding-top:1vw;">2016</p>
<p class="month">August 4, 2016</p>
<p class="event">LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. </p>
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<div class="u3"> <p class="date"style=" padding-right: .8vw; margin-left: -2vw;">2017</p>
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<p class="month"style="padding-top:6.5vw;">April, 2017</p>
<p class="event">An envelope with the return<br> address "Grozny" and white powder<br> inside is sent to Novaya Gazeta. </p>
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<p class="month">November, 2018</p>
<p class="event">The New Times magazine is fined 22 million rubles, the largest fine in the history of Russian media.</p>
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<p class="date"style="margin-top:0.3vw">2018</p>
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<p class="month">October, 2018</p>
<p class="event" style="margin-left: 3vw;">Novaya Gazeta is sent a severed ram’s head, funeral wreath, and threatening notes. </p>
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<p class="month">March, 2018</p>
<p class="event">Vladimir Putin is re-elected. More evidence of <br>ballot stuffing and election fraud is filmed.</p>
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<p class="event">The foreign agent law is updated to apply to any private individual. </p>
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<p class="month">October, 2019</p>
<p class="event">The “sovereign internet” law is passed. It gives the government power to automatically block content and reroute internet traffic. </p>
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<p class="month">March, 2019</p>
<p class="event">Bill fining those who spread "fake news" and "show disrespect to the state authorities" is passed. </p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-top: 6vw;">2019</p>
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<p class="date" style="margin-top:-1vw;">2020</p>
<p class="month">August, 2020</p>
<p class="event">Alexey Navalny, Russian opposition leader, is evacuated to Germany after most likely being poisoned with Novichok nerve agent, a Soviet-era chemical weapon. </p>
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<div class="y3"> <p class="month">December, 2020</p>
<p class="event">Navalny ally Lyubov Sobol's apartment is raided after she allegedly visits the spy accused of poisoning him.</p>
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<p class="date">2021</p>
<p class="month">January 17, 2021</p>
<p class="event">Navalny returns to Russia and is immediately arrested for allegedly violating parole. In 2022 he will be sentenced to at least 9 more years in prison. </p>
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<p class="month">March 15, 2021</p>
<p class="event">A masked biker strikes Novaya Gazeta's building entrance with an unknown chemical substance.</p> <br>
<p class="month" style="margin-top:4.6vw;">April, 2021</p>
<p class="event">Putin signs a law that will allow him to run for reelection twice more, potentially extending his presidency to 2036. </p>
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<p class="event">Memorial International and Memorial human rights groups are liquidated. </p>
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<p class="event"style="margin-right:-13vw;">Echo of Moscow, Dozhd, BBC News, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Deutsche Welle, The New Times Magazine, Meduza, 200RF, Current Time, Google News, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Bellingcat, and countless other media outlets and websites are blocked.<br><br>
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<p class="event">Russia's justice ministry cancels the registration of amnesty international and Human Rights Watch.</p>
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<p class="event"style="width:60%;">Infromation that goes against the government’s narrative about what they call a “special military operation” in Ukraine is criminalized. "War" and "invasion" are words that can result in a prison sentence of up to 15 years. </p>
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<p class="month">April 7, 2022</p>
<p class="event">Russia is suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council.</p>
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