Engineering360: "Robot news anchor makes its debut in Russia"

Summer-vehr . . . .

..."The dangers to journalists in Russia have been well known since the early 1990s but concern at the number of unsolved killings soared after Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow on 7 October 2006. While international monitors spoke of several dozen deaths, some sources within Russia talked of over two hundred fatalities.^[18][19]

Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty in Russia is observed on 15 December every year.

Assaults on journalistsEdit

Since the early 1990s, a number of Russian reporters who have covered the situation in Chechnya, contentious stories on organized crime, state and administrative officials, and large businesses have been killed. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, since 1992, 50 journalists have been murdered for their professional activity in Russia (which made it the third deadliest country for journalists in the 1992–2006 period):^[20] 30 journalists from 1993 to 2000, and 20 journalists since 2000.^[21][22]"...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_freedom_in_Russia

Sure it's the only safe way to report the news...anonymously...

You never have to worry about what they will say. It is a wet dream of all repressive regimes, to present the appearance of a free press but still have total control of the messaging.