MOSCOW — Russianpolice on Tuesday raided the apartments ofinvestigativejournalistsand their relatives as authorities pile more pressure on independent media.
Proyekt (The Project), one of Russia’s last remaining independent media outlets specializing in in-depth investigations, said that police raided the homesof its chief editor Roman Badanin and journalist Maria Zholobova.
Another journalist, deputy editor Mikhail Rubin, was detained while police were searching his parents’ apartment, the media outlet said on social media, adding that police had confiscated thejournalists’ computers and phones.
The searches came ahead of the publication of an investigation into the alleged w…
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