MOSCOW—The newsroom at Dozhd, or TV Rain in English, was buzzing on Aug. 23, three days after the Kremlin had designated the outlet—the only independent TV channel in the country—as a “foreign agent,” casting its future into doubt.
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Journalists gather for a press conference of co-owners of cable channel Dozhd (TV Rain), Natalya Sindeyeva and Alexander Vinokurov, at the channel office in Moscow, on Feb. 4, 2014.