Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina writes on the murder of five of her colleagues in the last decade and Russia’s ‘shrinking community of independent reporters and human rights defenders‘.  A ‘flash mob‘ demonstration was held by independent journalists in Saratov yesterday, to protest the recent attacks on Russian journalists.  Proposals to toughen the law and impose stronger penalties on those who perpetrate such attacks are ‘a bluff and a cheap distraction‘, says Aleksandr Podrabinek.  The Economist comments that, ‘although the Kremlin can have a magic sway over television news, its powers to investigate attacks on journalists and bring criminals to justice are less impressive.‘  Vedomosti reports say that over 40 people have been questioned thus far over the beating of Oleg Kashin, and that over 100 policemen are working on the case.  The wife of Konstantin Fetisov, an environmental activist currently in a coma after being attacked last week, has blamed Khimki officials for the incident.  The Wall Street Journal evaluates the decoration of the officials who put Sergei Magnitsky in jail, quoting a leader of the Moscow Bar Association’s response: ‘amazed‘.