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– Editor Dmitry Popkov shot dead in Russia's Siberia (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 26, 2017

The editor of an independent news website, said in an interview that Dmitry Popkov was killed for his journalism, particularly for his recent reports about a federal parliamentary audit that revealed corruption in the local administration.
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