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Russian authorities fined journalist Sergei Sokolov after a detainment for his story about Russian orphans who signed up for the army, saying it "discredited" Russian forces.
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The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was detained in Moscow on Thursday and later fined after being accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces, the newspaper said. Sergei Sokolov was detained by officers from Russia’s Center for Combating Extremism (Center E), and fined 30,000 rubles ($329) in a hearing at a Moscow court later on Thursday, Novaya Gazeta said. It was found in an examination by the authorities to contain “linguistic and psychological signs of verbally discrediting the actions of power structures," the paper said.