After targeting journalists, Russian authorities now targeting their lawyers

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While stepping up their harassment of journalists via the “foreign agents” law, the Russian authorities are now also targeting their lawyers. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an end to the harassment and prosecution of media lawyers and condemns the steps being taken to deprive reporters of legal assistance.

Yevgeny Smirnov – one of the lawyers defending Ivan Safronov, an investigative reporter specialising in the military who is

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