From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news site, which translated the conversation into English. Elizaveta Golikova and Igor Trosnikov were appointed chief editors of RBC earlier that month. TASS is a state-run news agency.

igor trosnikov: Colleagues, you probably want to hear about our editorial policy. We’re not going to change the policy in any fundamental ways, and generally speaking we’re not taking any big actions at all.

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