Mass media in Russia is either run directly by the state or owned by companies with close links to the Kremlin. Media rights organisation Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern at "the absence of pluralism in news and information, an intensifying crackdown against journalists and the drastic state of press freedom in Chechnya". 13 journalist have been killed Russia since the year 2000. Reporters Without Borders put Russia at 144th place in the World Press Freedom Index (from a list of 169 countries)