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Russia opens criminal case against journalist critical of Ukraine war

FILE PHOTO: Meduza CEO Galina Timchenko in Moscow

FILE PHOTO: Galina Timchenko, CEO of online news portal Meduza in Moscow, Russia June 8, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva/File Photo

(Reuters) -Russia's Investigative Committee said on Tuesday that it had launched criminal proceedings against a prominent journalist who heads a publication in neighbouring Latvia providing critical coverage of the three-year-old conflict in Ukraine.

The Moscow branch of the committee, which deals with major criminal cases in Russia, said it had opened the case against Russian-born Galina Timchenko, co-founder and head of the Meduza publication.





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