Claim: December 15th is Remembrance Day for Killed Journalists in Russia, a day when Oleg Slabynko (a main contributor to the freedom of speech movement in Russia) and hundreds of other journalists and media professionals who were killed in the 1990's are remembered.
Evidence: Oleg Slabynko (1962 – 1996), a Russian, was working for Russian Television Channel 2 as a TV producer for the show Moment Istiny (Moment of Truth) in Moscow, Russia. Slabynko was murdered in his home by two unidentified assailants on a contract killing. Slabynko was one of over 562 contract murders that happened over the course of three years. The Moment of Truth program allowed for Russian civilians to ask questions of prominent public figures. He was a main contributor for the freedom of speech movement in Russia. An unidentified group was contracted to kill leaders and people of influence in Moscow. During the years 1992–2012, 562 journalists were murdered in Russia. Russia does not have the right to freedom of press like the United States. The dangers to journalists in Russia have been well known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. The Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty in Russia is observed on 15 December every year.