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Inside the Struggle to Preserve the World's Data

When masked gunmen smashed their way into the offices of the Crimean Centre for Investigative Journalism, the staff knew what was coming. For years, the centre had been a lone crusading voice exposing deep-rooted corruption in Ukrainian government circles, defying threats of violence and attempts to close it down. Now it was payback time as the thugs trashed the premises, seizing computers, hard drives and confidential files. Their objective was clear: erase the centre?s ?institutional memory? by taking its website, containing some 16,000 pages of dedicated investigative reporting, off the internet for good.

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Source: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/27/inside-struggle-preserve-worlds-data-261636.html
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