Western Press Coverage
The case of Mikhail Trepashkin caught the attention of the Western press, caused an uproar among human rights campaigners, was put on record by Amnesty International, mentioned by the US State Department and featured in an award-winning documentary Disbelief. The documentary was funded by anti-Kremlin oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
American war correspondent Scott Anderson wrote a story about his interviews with Trepashkin for the September 2009 issue of the GQ magazine. However, according to NPR's David Folkenflik, Conde Nast management gave orders to limit circulation of the story. These included banning the story off of GQ's website, not showing the US issue to "Russian government officials, journalists or advertisers", not publishing the story in any overseas Conde Nast magazines, not publicizing the story, and asking Anderson to not syndicate it 'to any publications that appear in Russia'.
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