Killing of journalists

I read an interesting – if sad – statistics in the “Financial Times” today, compiled by Reuters. The FT showed a map of the world, indicating the number of killed journalists between the years 1996 to June 2006. Sadly – but unsurprisingly – Iraq came first with 138 deaths. Considering that a major war is going on, this is hardly unexpected. However, guess which country occupied the second spot? Russia! With 88 killed journalists - and this number excludes Chechnya. Russia came second even before Columbia with 72 murdered journalists. How come that there are 88 cases of murdered journalists in a country where there is no major ongoing war and with this country apparently being a democracy?