Modern Russia is not North Korea and there is free speech there (although pushed to the corner), but job of a journalist there is still associated with a risk of assassination by "unknown perpetrators". So it takes some courage:

"Journalists at Vedomosti, one of Russia’s most prominent business publications, on Thursday accused their editor of imposing stifling pro-Kremlin censorship upon them and suggested the board of directors appoint someone else"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-newspaper/journalists-at-prominent-russian-business-newspaper-complain-of-pro-kremlin-censorship-idUSKCN22539G