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Russian activist Garry Kasparov warns Trump's media crackdown echoes Putin's early rule - CNN
Russian pro-democracy leader Garry Kasparov issued a stark warning as the Trump administration moves to crackdown on negative press.
Writing in The Next Move, Kasparov recalled how a free press briefly flourished after the Soviet collapse, only to be swiftly crushed under Vladimir Putin.