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Dimitri Babitch

The World

Intimidation: A Journalist is Murdered in Chechnya

Arts, Culture & Media

Natalya Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist, was kidnapped in the Chechen capital of Grozny and found dead of gunshot wounds. Joining The Takeaway is Dimitri Babitch, political journalist of the Russian news agency Rio Novosti.

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