A reporter with a top Moscow Opposition paper, that has won numerous awards in the West, was detained on Wednesday in separatist eastern Ukraine and is likely to be expelled to Russia, his colleagues said.
Novaya Gazeta has been one of the only Russian media sources to investigate Western and Kiev accusations that the Kremlin has been both orchestrating and supporting the 14-month uprising in the industrial heartland of its ex-Soviet neighbour Ukraine.
The paper’s editor and several reporters said journalist Pavel Kanygin was detained in a rebel-run part of the Ukrainian war zone and taken to a separatist-controlled village on the border with Russia.