Russia - Police raid Moscow weekly in bid to identify sources

Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's three-hour raid on The New Times, an independent Moscow-based weekly, by armed and masked police officers led by Col. Stanislav Pashkovsky, the head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs (GUVD) for the Moscow region, who wanted to identify the sources for a February exposé on riot police corruption and abuses. Col. Pashkovsky was after the recordings of interviews that members of the OMON riot police gave anonymously to reporter Ilya (...)

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