Were you also banned from writing about the meetings?

On Saturday, 10 december,  rallies were held in all the "capitals" Barents Russia. In Murmansk, the police estimated 400 people gathered at a sanctioned rally, which the Communists agreed with the authorities, about 80 people, mostly young people,  took part in the unauthorized rally.

                                                Protest rally in Murmansk center Saturday, 10 December 2011  

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" - Murmansk - the only big  regional media,  wrote about it.

http://murmansk.kp.ru/daily/25802/2783061/

 At the meeting in Murmansk I met at least a dozen fellow journalists. Cameramen worked everywhere. But the information  about the event is almost invisible  . One of the most popular Internet resources in our area even got the question  on their forum: "Why  Bi- port  has no   a word about Saturday's rally? In your opinion, it is so little newsworthy? "
At noon on Monday, that is, two days after the event, information is still absent.
Many of my colleagues told me that all the previous week, they constantly heard from their bosses: "You should no write about rallies. Journalists mostly wrote     in their blogs, since they could not tell anything in their media.
I am not going now to evaluate the protest movement or the results of the elections. I am asking as a journalist colleagues and myself: is it not our professional duty to tell people about everything significant that happens in society?  I think everyone knows the answer  but few dare now to follow this principle.

                                                                      Placate "We are for the honest elections"

In our northern cities, in my opinion, all was calm. No   arrests , no    use of force against journalists, as it was in Moscow and several other cities  . But we are nevertheless scaring?
Elena Larionova, project coordinator Barents Press.

 Democracy funeral

Statement of the Russian Journalists Union (unofficial translation)   

 
We consider mass detentions and beatings of journalists performing their professional duties in place in Moscow opposition protests as  an attempt to shut up the   “mouth” of society, to intimidate it, demonstrating the power and opportunity to openly and with impunity to violate the law.  We demand an effective investigation of all these shameful cases, the leave-taking to court as those who performed the criminal orders, and those who gave them. We insist that members of the journalistic community suspended their membership in the Public council at the Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office, before this requirement is not met.
We express our sympathy to all the colleagues who have been victims of police lawlessness.

Relevant cases:

As the capital's police beat reporter, "Kommersant" by Alexander Black

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on the mass detention of people at Triumph Square in Moscow and beating journalists

Most of the major Russian TV channels do not cover the event at Triumph Square in Moscow, where already about 250 people were detained for taking part in a protest against the election results to the State Duma

International human rights organization "Human Rights Watch," has condemned the arrest of opposition leaders and protesters in Moscow

The police promised to investigate the beating of a journalist of  "Kommersant"

Moscow authorities have agreed to held on December 10 at Revolution Square in an opposition rally against the violations in the last elections to the Duma

The police say nothing of the 600 detainees at a rally at Triumph, most are sitting jails

Statement of the Union of Journalists in Moscow

"The morning reversal." Transfer station "Moscow Echo" about the detention of journalists covering a protest