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Novaya Gazeta reporters threatened - editor-in-chief

MOSCOW. Nov 27 (Interfax) - Two Novaya Gazeta reporters received death threats on November 24, the newspaper's editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov said.

"They are two of the newspaper's leading reporters. I can't give any further details by agreement with investigators," Muratov told Interfax on Monday.

Novaya Gazeta said in an official statement on Monday that the threats were issued "in the first case following the publication of a report on problems in the North Caucasus and, secondly, in connection with the investigation into the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya."

"One of the reporters received a message on his cell phone saying he had been targeted and spelling out his home address. Law enforcement services have been informed," the statement says.