MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Russia still has not heard any reaction from international organizations regarding the assassination of journalist Darya Dugina as well as other ‘atrocities’ committed against media representatives, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
“A year after the tragic death of Darya Dugina we have not heard a single word from relevant organizations and human rights institutions about this,” Zakharova said in a statement.
There are, “Many other deliberate atrocities committed against those media representatives whose point of view does not coincide with the one approved by the collective West (an insipid comment by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay expressing regret about the death of Rostislav Zhuravlyov does not count),” she said.
“Hypocrisy, dividing journalists into the “good” and “bad”, “ours” and “theirs” is what prevails in the activities of those organizations,” she added.
“We would like to once again draw the attention of international human rights organizations and the judiciary to the fact that the rights of journalists are being flagrantly violated and terrorist methods are being used against them,” Zakharova said.
The diplomat recalled a series of assassination attempts and murders of Russian journalists and opinion leaders committed by the Kiev regime.
“The cynical killing of Darya Dugina was followed by a series of attempted murders and assassinations of Russian journalists and public opinion leaders committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis,” Zakharova stated.
“Journalist Oleg Klokov was killed in a shelling by a high-precision US missile aimed at a group of Tavria TV and radio company’s reporters in October 2022,” she said.
“An attempt to assassinate founder of Tsargrad TV Konstantin Malofeyev was made in March 2023. War correspondent Maxim Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky) was killed in an explosion in April 2023. Writer and public activist Yevgeny Prilepin (Zakhar Prilepin) was seriously injured in May 2023,” she added.
“Attempted murders of Editor-in-Chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya international media group Margarita Simonyan and journalist and TV host Ksenia Sobchak were prevented in July 2023,” Zakharova said.
“RIA Novosti war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed as a result of shelling of a civilian vehicle with US cluster munitions in July 2023; four of his colleagues received injuries of varying severity,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry added.
Darya Dugina, 29, was killed on August 20 when her car was blown up on the M1 Highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy in the Moscow Region’s Odintsovsky district.
On August 22, the Russian Federal Security Service’s Public Relations Center told TASS that her murder had been solved.
According to the agency, it was carried out by Ukraine’s intelligence services, and the perpetrator was a Ukrainian citizen named Natalia Vovk.
Later, the FSB reported that in addition to Vovk, Dugina’s murder had been plotted in Moscow by another member of this Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group, Ukrainian citizen Bogdan Tsyganenko.