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Just the previous spring, Igor Domnikov of Novaya Gazeta had been murdered while covering abuses by the Russian armed forces in Chechnya.
Russian Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnye Vojska), an arm of service of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation