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Editors at Proyekt, a small Russian website, were jittery as they hit the button to publish their latest investigation - one of their most provocative to date.
The team had been researching something completely different when they stumbled upon an incredible story: a secret lover of Vladimir Putin and a teenage daughter who looked incredibly like the Russian president.
They knew the consequences would be drastic, and they were right. Since the exclusive was published, some sources no longer take the teams calls. Emails and social media accounts are often hacked. Some of the journalists were followed.
We have been through this before, and we knew what was going to happen, Mikhail Rubin, Proyekts deputy editor-in-chief, told The Telegraph.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-cracks-down-feisty-independent-144840066.html
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(31,261 posts)Why would a previously un-revealed one come as a surprise?