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Natalia Antonova is a journalist and playwright. She has written for The Guardian, Mashable, openDemocracy, Newsweek, The Moscow Times and others. She was the last editor of The Moscow News, Russia's oldest English language newspaper, before it was shut down after the Kremlin liquidated its parent news agency, RIA Novosti. @NataliaAntonova

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