Russia is ready to discuss human rights...
Rasmussen said.The Russian president said that all grave crimes must be properly investigated, not only those committed against journalists or on any other professional basis.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a total of 68 journalists were killed worldwide in 2009, the highest annual toll ever recorded. Russia, where three journalists were killed in 2009, has the fifth highest toll, after Somalia (nine deaths), Iraq (four) and Pakistan (four).
Chechen rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who had been investigating kidnappings and disappearances in Chechnya for the Russian human rights group Memorial, was abducted and murdered on July 15 last year in the south Russian republic. She was included in the list of journalists due to her articles for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
Novaya Gazeta reporter Anastasia Baburova was shot dead on January 19, 2009, in downtown Moscow, together with lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was acting on behalf
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