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5 unusual facts about The Moscow News


Mark Galeotti

In July 2011, he started writing a regular column, Siloviks & Scoundrels, for the Russian newspaper The Moscow News.

Sopkarga mammoth

The Moscow News refers to it as the best preserved mammoth find in the past 100 years.

The Moscow News

The Moscow News was founded by American socialist Anna Louise Strong and approved by the Communist leadership - at that time already dominated by Joseph Stalin - in 1930 as an international newspaper with the purpose of spreading the ideas of socialism to international audience.

It continues to cover both Russian and global news and columns by writers including Mark Galeotti.

Khodorovsky hired Yevgeny Kiselyov, an outspoken liberal journalist who started a scandal in the ranks by firing nine veteran journalists.



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