INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
conviction for a journalist since 2001.Safronov, a defense journalist at top Russian newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti who went on to work
for state space agency Roscosmos, was convicted of collecting secret information about the Russian military and handing it to spies for the
rights lawyer Pavel Chikov posted on Telegram
pressure.Both Smirnov and Pavlov fled Russia last year
business newspaper Kommersant
When forced to quit following an article about a top Russian official, the entire politics deskwalked out in protest
father, Ivan Safronov, who also worked for Kommersant covering the defense industry, died in 2007 after falling from a window
Investigators concluded he killed himself, but some questioned the official version, pointing out that at the time of his death he was
working on a story about secret Russian arms deliveries to Iran and Syria.The Safronov case is the first treason case against a Russian
journalist since 2001 when reporter Grigory Pasko, who revealed a number of environmental violations by the Russian Navy, wassentenced to
