Deputys Threats Against Newspaper Trigger Internet Dispute

State Duma Deputy Andrei Isayev on Friday appeared to threaten Moskovsky Komsomolets staff, coming under fire from journalists and activists and triggering a scandal in the blogosphere. The presumed threats came after the daily published an article criticizing several female deputies of the parliament’s lower house. Pavel Gusev, Moskovsky Komsomolets’ owner and editor-in-chief, said he would file a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office against Isayev in an effort to “protect our newspaper’s journalists.” “A tabloid has organized a filthy, mean, dirty attack on three female deputies,…

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