Crackdown on journalists intensifying in Russia’s far east

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a growing crackdown on journalists covering a nearly five-month-old wave of protests in Khabarovsk, in Russia’s far east, and calls for independent investigations into the abuses to which media personnel are being subjected there.Independent and opposition media are now being singled out by the authorities in their efforts to curb demonstrations for the release of the Khabarovsk region’s former governor, Sergey Furgal, who

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