Novye Izvestiya
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Novye Izvestiya (Russian: Новые Известия) is a Russian daily newspaper, published in Moscow. It was founded in 1997 by a group of journalists who left Izvestia newspaper, with the financial backing of Boris Berezovsky. After Vladimir Putin's election as President of Russia in 2000, Novye Izvestiya became a frequent critic of the new government, especially over the Kremlin's influence on democratic freedoms for Russian citizens and the war in Chechnya. In February 2003, apparently in a shareholders' dispute, the newspaper was seized from Boris Berezovsky's ownership, which led to the departure of several leading journalists, who later formed a new smaller daily publication, Russkii Kurier. Today Novye Izvestiya continues to exist, but its criticism of the government is much more subdued.
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