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"Journalism is a perilous profession in Russia,
a nation considered among the worst in the world for press freedom."
"A journalist who had been investigating the deaths of alleged Russian mercenaries in Syria died in a hospital on Sunday after falling from his balcony in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Maxim Borodin, a 32-year-old reporter for the Yekaterinburg-based Ria Novy Den news agency, was known for his coverage of high-profile corruption and criminal cases. He fell from his fifth-floor balcony on Thursday, The New York Times reported, and neighbors found him critically injured at the foot of the building. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died from his injuries three days later.
"[Borodin's] work was very dangerous," friend and local civil rights activist Vyacheslav Bashkov told The Guardian this week. "He was one of the best."
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