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The State of Crimean Journalism

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Last weekend, as Russian troops flooded into Crimea, Ukraine, 30 armed men in unmarked fatigues broke into the office of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism in Simferopol, the region's capital. The incident is one of many recent acts of aggression against journalists in the region. Bob talks to Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, from Kiev about what she saw on her recent trip to Simferopol.