The New York Times pulled its reporters out of Russia on Tuesday, the latest precaution taken by a large media company in response to The Kremlin’s punitive new “fake news” law.Why it matters: “Even in the depths of the Cold War, under the Soviet dictatorship, this never happened,” tweeted Times deputy managing editor Cliff Levy.The Times’ chief White House correspondent Peter Baker commented that during the beginning of the Putin era, “it never came close to this.”
Origen: News media flee Russia to avoid Putin’s fake news law
