The offices of weekly opposition newspaper Vecherny Krasnokamsk were ravaged in an arson attack on 28 January in the south-west Russian Perm region. The paper’s editor Olga Kolokolova has linked the attack to a series of investigative reports recently published by the newspaper on corruption, which implicated the town’s mayor’s office.
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Russia: opposition newspaper office destroyed in arson attack
The offices of weekly opposition newspaper Vecherny Krasnokamsk were ravaged in an arson attack on 28 January in the south-west Russian Perm region. The paper’s editor Olga Kolokolova has linked the attack to a series of investigative reports recently published by the newspaper on corruption, which implicated the town’s mayor’s office.
By Marta Cooper
01 Feb 12
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