Moscow’s independent media just lost their freedom, but in the regions there was never any freedom to loseby Nonna Chernyakova VLADIVOSTOK, Russia–On the eve of Easter, journalist Andrei Kalachinsky received an unpleasant surprise: Court officials announced his car would be seized to pay off former Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko, who had won a libel lawsuit against him for a story that […]

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