A group of thugs (not necessarily official state thugs) [ attacked a BBC team in Moscow ](
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/18/bbc-journalists-attacked-equipment-damaged-moscow-complaint ) ; while the team was reporting the attack to the official thugs, someone erased their computers' memories. Apparently some of Putin's men wanted to stop them from reporting on a Russian soldier apparently killed in Ukraine.
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https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#18_September_2014_%28Thugs_attacked_a_BBC_team_in_Moscow%29