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Plotnikov had been detained in Dagestan in December 2010 on suspicion of having ties to the militants and during his interrogation was forced to hand over a list of social networking friends from the United States and Canada who like him had once lived in Russia, Novaya Gazeta reported.
NPR: Russia Had Elder Boston Suspect Under Surveillance
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His wife, Irina Khalip, a journalist for Russia's Novaya Gazeta, says he has been tortured.
ECONOMIST: Belarus under fire
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In 2001, she fled briefly to Austria after a particularly vivid death threat scared not her, but her editors at Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's few remaining independent papers.
ECONOMIST: Anna Politkovskaya