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Russian ex-journalist calls treason charge 'travesty' as trial set to start

FILE PHOTO: Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and an aide to the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos who remains in custody on state treason charges, is escorted after a court hearing in Moscow, Russia September 2, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

Russian former military reporter Ivan Safronov on Monday dismissed treason charges against him as a "travesty" as his trial was set to begin behind closed doors in Moscow.

Safronov was a prominent journalist and part of the pool of officially accredited Kremlin reporters until shortly before his arrest in July 2020, when his detention sent a chill through Russia's already tightly controlled media landscape.

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