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Seth Mandel

1 article 2011

Seth Mandel is a journalist and political commentator who serves as executive editor of the Washington Examiner magazine. He previously held editorial roles at the New York Post and Commentary magazine. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2011, writing about press freedom in Russia.

Is Journalism in Russia Worth Dying For?

April 20, 2011 · Vladimir Putin, Blog

On October 7, 2006 investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead near her home in Moscow. Five days later, Politkovskaya’s newspaper published her last complete article, a thorough dissection of the utter collapse of “Chechenization”—the Kremlin’s policy of turning over the…