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Russian editor Igor Rudnikov has now spent one year in jail without trial (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 6, 2018

The editor of the now-closed Kalingrad-based weekly, Novye Kolesa, Igor Rudnikov has been held for the past year on a highly dubious extortion charge.
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