Putin vs. Novy Ochevidets: Copycat New Yorker shutters

In his rapacious journey toward stamping out every single press organ not devoted to singing the praises of a re-armed, one-party Mother Russia, Vladimir Putin could be suspected of being the architect behind the sad, immediate closing of New Yorker look-alike magazine Novy Ochevidets (that’s “New Eyewitness” to you and me). And it came like a cloudburst, says The Moscow Times.

And, lest you cast aspersions on David Remnick for engineering a sly, Lavrenti P. Beria-style press assassination from afar of a publication that ripped off his book right down to the last font in the Jazz section, perish the thought.

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