Word: gazeta
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...Mezhennaya's case is only one in a series of crackdowns on the regional press. In January police searched the offices of Den Za Dnem, a Volgograd weekly critical of Governor Nikolai Maksyuta. In February police raided Novaya Gazeta, a weekly in Ryazan which had criticized Regional Governor Vyacheslav Lyubimov in its coverage of his election campaign. In March the regional prosecutor's office in Belgorod pressed charges against Olga Kitova, a correspondent for the local daily Belgorodskaya Pravda who questioned alleged financial machinations by the regional legislature. Though a member of the legislature herself, Kitova was detained and beaten...