The statue of Alexander Pushkin standing by Izvestia’s downtown offices. The daily faces a surprise revamp. The publisher of Izvestia, once known as Russia’s New York Times, signaled Monday that two-thirds of the newspaper’s journalists might face dismissal as he seeks to turn the publication into something “cooler” than Kommersant and Vedomosti. Some Izvestia journalists said they understood that Izvestia would adopt […]