Detained yesterday in the Donbas special journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Paul Kanygin Returned to the capital of Russia, said Last news chief editor Dmitry Muratov.

"Back, takes a beating, goes for tests," - said Muratov.

first New print edition "stated that Kanygin was captured by the organs of state security" the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic. According to the publication, he was charged that he worked not to the " Novaya Gazeta ", and on one of the Ukrainian media. In the newspaper this charge disputed.

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