Editor of Russia’s biggest opposition newspaper says he will arm his staff to protect them from attacks

MOSCOW – The editor-in-chief of Russia's most prominent opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, has said that he would arm his staff with rubber-bullet "traumatic" pistols and other self-defense measures after a spate of attacks against journalists in Russia. Days after the stabbing of a senior editor at Moscow's Echo of Moscow radio station, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, told the same […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/10/26/editor-of-russias-biggest-opposition-newspaper-says-he-will-arm-his-staff-to-protect-them-from-attacks/