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Interesting article on the oft-sued and fined Respublika newspaper. Now that no printing house will touch it, they publish in office:

Respublika’s print run of 19,000 is produced on office equipment, starting on Tuesdays when some sections of the Friday weekly are ready. The process peaks on Thursday evenings as copy is finalized.

Work continues throughout the night, with compilers manually collating and stapling the newspaper, and a driver collecting batches and delivering them to sales points during the early hours of Friday.

Respublika runs several makeshift printing operations, “so there’s also a chance that if, say, here it is blocked [by the authorities], part of the print run reaches the reader,” Makushina said.