PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE: Russian journalist recently charged with slander brutally attacked near his home
A Russian journalist charged with slander over his reporting on a deadly 17 August explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant was beaten unconscious on Wednesday by two unidentified men in his south-Siberian hometown of Abakan, according to news reports. In reporting on the dam disaster, Mikhail Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the online journal Novy Fokus, published […]
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