The CPJ, a New York-based nonprofit group that monitors abuses against the press and promotes press freedom internationally, said the five -- who also included journalists from Guatemala, Indonesia, Ireland and Zambia -- had risked "political persecution and personal hardship to defy official and unofficial attacks on the independent press in their countries."
Kiselyov is the co-founder of NTV, Russia's first financially independent television network, and the host of its weekly "Itogi" news analysis program.
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