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Yevgeniya Albats, Putin critic, leaves Russia after independent media crackdown

Yevgeniya Albats knew writing about the Soviet-era KGB and its successor the current-day FSB was risky. Russia declared her a foreign agent, like her grandfather who was killed in the Stalin era.

NPR’s Michele Kelemen reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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