{"id":37664,"date":"2021-07-14T23:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37664"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:14:41","slug":"honoring-the-legacies-of-natalya-estemirova-and-paul-klebnikov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37664","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Legacies of Natalya Estemirova and Paul Klebnikov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>07\/14\/2021 07:11 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>This month, the United States honors slain journalists Natalya Estemirova and Paul Klebnikov.\u00a0 Klebnikov, a\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0magazine journalist and U.S. citizen, investigated and exposed corruption in post-Soviet Russia.\u00a0 On July 9, 2004, he was shot and killed in Moscow, likely in retaliation for his work.\u00a0 Estemirova exposed the egregious human rights violations committed during the Second Chechen War as a human rights activist and journalist for\u00a0<em>Novaya Gazeta.<\/em>\u00a0 Estemirova was abducted in Grozny, Chechnya and killed on July 15, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers and perpetrators of these heinous murders were never brought to justice, and violence and pressure against journalists continues with impunity in Russia.\u00a0 The United States condemns the Russian government\u2019s ongoing crackdown on independent media and stands in solidarity with independent Russian journalists and human rights defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Estemirova\u2019s and Klebnikov\u2019s legacies will live on in their work, in the next generation of brave reporters they have inspired, and in the fight for human rights and against corruption in Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/14\/2021 07:11 PM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37665,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions\/37665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}