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Elena Polyakova
Journalists
1972-12-23
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Klin
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her flat was searched, system blocks were seized; authorisation was given to wiretap the phone; the editorial office of the newspaper "Sickle and Hammer" was searched, Polyakova's computer was seized; she was dismissed from her job; the investigator's motion to dismiss the case was not satisfied by the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office; on 18 October 2013, she was sentenced to one and a half years' suspended sentence.
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