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Russia’s federal censor has flagged a violation of “foreign agent” disclosure requirements supposedly committed by the independent television network Dozhd. According to summons paperwork addressed to the network’s CEO and online chief editor, Dozhd distributed information about “foreign agents” in a report on June 29 about Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation without notifying readers about the organization’s “foreign agent” designation in Russia (though the text in question does, in fact, mention this status).

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