The closure of a major Russian newspaper after three decades of reporting on an increasingly repressive government marks a significant escalation in the silencing of independent journalism.
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For more than 30 years, the paper covered an increasingly repressive Russia. “The process of silencing us started many years ago,” one of its journalists said.
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