by Nikolai Iakobouvski Moscow-One couldn’t hope to make a much bigger impact with an investigative scoop than Izvestiya made with its report on the criminalization of local government in the western Siberian city of Leninsk-Kuznetskii. The week after the Moscow daily published its series on how a former small-time hoodlum had used a combination of thuggery and political friendships to […]
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