Official Russia

Vilhelm Konnander at Global Voices has some translations of LiveJournal users, observing the relative media blackout on the murder of Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova.

Whereas Medvedev’s statement on the murder, may have averted
international repercussions, reactions in Russian media were sparse,
and LJ user tupikin accounts for [RUS] his own feelings and others’ neglect to cover the issue:

Almost the entire day was spent in a realm of black
colour. At first, the press conference about yesterday’s kidnapping and
murder of Grozny Human Rights defender Natalya Estemirova (judging from
comments on my post
- a single one - one might think that it is only of interest for
anti-Kremlin websites, whereas none of my best friends showed any
interest whatsoever). Tell me, honestly, do you think that Human
Rights’ defenders are crazy? Or rather, predestined to die? OK, the
press conference gathered 60 journalists, including ten TV-cameras.
When Ludmila Alexeyeva, chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group, asked
national [i.e. Russian] journalists to raise their hands, it turned out
to be no more than 15 people. The news, which has circled world media,
is received, here in our country, with amazing stoicism, as if that
simply is the way it has to be. Really, not 60, but 160 journalists
should have come… Well, that is not some other country, but it is all
ours. [--] and then Ludmila Alexeyeva added that two people were guilty
- Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin. [--] I don’t know whether the tacit
readers of my LiveJournal understand, that this is a sensation of
all-Russian proportions [--] that two of the most high-ranking state
officials in Russia were named as accomplices to a political murder in
front of TV-cameras and tens of journalists. The ground did not shake,
only silence followed. As I wrote these words on the keyboard of my old
notebook, it was as if the finger-touches forming letters were like the
strikes from the Tsar Bell…

Source: Robert Amsterdam