Word: kukin
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...mopping up of Mezhennaya began a year ago, when City Channel correspondent Alexander Kukin broadcast the report about Ryzhkova that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped...
...absence of a crime," to use the Russian legal phrase. The prosecution promptly appealed and the ordeal will now start all over again, in the regional court. Mezhennaya says she has no way of knowing whether she will still be free at the end of the month. Kukin, the TV correspondent whose report triggered Mezhennaya's problems, now works for the local state-run TV station. He is testifying for the prosecution that she urged him to do the allegedly slanderous feature...