Monument to Russian journalists killed in recent wars to be built -- most recently four Russian war reporters have been killed on the job in East Ukraine
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In addition to the monument dedicated to journalists of the Second World War, Moscow will now get a second monument honouring journalists fallen in recent conflicts.
Four Russian journalists and reporting staff were killed in Ukraine in the past 12 months.
The Calvert Journal reports.
The Moscow City Duma has approved plans for a monument honouring journalists killed on the job to be erected outside of the Central House of Journalists near Arbatskaya Ploshchad.
The monument, dedicated to those killed in recent conflicts, will be funded by The Moscow Union of Journalists, and will be the second monument in Moscow to commemorate the profession."There is already a monument dedicated to the journalists who perished during Second World War. Now we are referring to a monument to journalists who died relatively recently — in Afghanistan and Chechnya and Ukraine," said Yevgeny Gerasimov, head of the Moscow City Duma's commission on culture and mass communication.
The decision to pay tribute to journalists has been in the works for several years, with previous plans to name Moscow's streets after murdered journalists Vladislav Listyev and Anna Politkovskaya.
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