RFE/RL has an interesting interview with Yelena Tregubova, a journalist and author who was forced to flee to asylum in the United Kingdom following death threats in her native Russia for government-critical reporting.

“In fact, the strange thing today is that the Internet is playing the role of publisher of samizdat,” Tregubova says. “I think that the future journalism textbooks will reflect this. Have a look, for example, at the grani.ru website — content-wise it is human rights-oriented per se. In fact, this is just what existed before — underground ‘chronicle of the current events’ or chronicle of what was going on during the pre-reform times in the Soviet Union.” …