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Putin Honors Pro-Kremlin Reporters

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For "objective" coverage of Crimea.

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MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV

It's awards season for pro-Kremlin journalists. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree honoring more than 300 journalists for so-called objective coverage of the Crimean crisis in April. No further details were released, but the awards apparently went out to state-run television, radio, and print media, including RT.

Read it at The Moscow Times

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