This Day in History: 2010-12-14

Russian activists arrested Russian police arrest leaders of an environmental protest against timbering of old-growth forests in the Utrish Nature Reserve in Krasnodar Territory on this day in 2010. Increasingly brutal tactics against environmentalists and environmental journalists have led to even more protests, according to the Biodiversity Media Alliance. Altogether, at least 52 Russian journalists have been murdered in two decades, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.