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Russian authorities have initiated criminal proceedings after The Washington Examiner, a D.C.-based magazine and website, published an article urging Ukraine to bomb Russia\u2019s newly opened bridge to Crimea.<\/p>\n
Washington Examiner editorial director Hugo Gurdon and columnist Tom Rogan are both being criminally investigated in connection with the article, \u201cUkraine Should Blow Up Putin\u2019s Crimea Bridge,\u201d a spokeswoman for Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee said Friday.<\/p>\n
The article was written by Mr. Rogan, 32, and published on the Examiner\u2019s website Tuesday, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin personally oversaw the opening of a controversial 12-mile bridge connecting the country\u2019s mainland with Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea annexed from Ukraine in early 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cUkraine has the means to launch air strikes against the bridge in a manner that would render it at least temporarily unusable,\u201d Mr. Rogan wrote in the article.<\/p>\n
\u201cBombing the bridge,\u201d he added, \u201cwould thus be a very personal rebuke to Putin\u2019s ambitions and his propaganda narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee announced Thursday that it had opened a criminal case against Mr. Rogan, and the committee confirmed Friday that its probe had been widened to encompass the Examiner\u2019s editorial director as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to the investigators, Gurdon had negotiated the approval and published Tom Rogan\u2019s article on the Washington Examiner\u2019s website, calling for blowing up the Crimean Bridge by carrying out bomb attacks,\u201d said Svetlana Petrenko, the committee\u2019s spokeswoman.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the article\u2019s publication violates Russia\u2019s law against publicly calling for terrorist activities on the territory of the Russian Federation, Ms. Petrenko said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the actions of Hugo Gurdon, propaganda of terrorism is seen,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In an editorial, The Washington Examiner described Russia\u2019s response to the article as \u201cwacky.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur writers don\u2019t normally advocate destruction of bridges, but then again, most bridges aren\u2019t built as part of an illegal armed invasion of another sovereign nation,\u201d the editorial said. \u201cCrimea is rightly Ukrainian. Russia controls it through illegal force, and this bridge is an effort to cement that control.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn America, the right to express that opinion to whomever we want is protected,\u201d the editorial said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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