Russia - Lenta.ru website is latest independent news outlet to be reined in

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by Galina Timchenko (Галина Тимченко)'s sudden dismissal as editor of the independent news website Lenta.ru today, shortly after it got a warning from the Russian communications regulatory agency Roskomnadzor for interviewing a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist leader. She has been replaced by Alexei Goreslavsky (Алексей Гореславский), a journalist widely regarded as pro-Kremlin. “Lenta.ru has been one of the few sources of independent news coverage in an ocean of propaganda, and (...)

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