The story of one journalist’s battle to defend free speech in Putin’s Russia. With unique access, FRONTLINE follows Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dmitry Muratov as he fights to keep his newspaper alive and his reporters safe amid a government crackdown.
These six FRONTLINE documentaries examine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership and what has happened to critics and dissenters during his tenure.
FRONTLINE takes a closer look at the different tactics that President Vladimir Putin and the government have used to clamp down on journalists in Russia, and the impact it’s had on press freedom since he came to power.
In September 2023, the Russian government labeled Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov a ‘foreign agent.’ As this excerpt from the documentary "Putin vs. the Press" shows, Muratov had in the past publicly confronted Putin about his crackdown on the press.