For today, links to two reports, an appreciation, and words from an interview, all from the Moscow Times; other published material is accessible by clicking on its name below. (MEDIA 7-28-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA, SYRIA, IRAN and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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FROM JULY 31  Derk Sauer, Moscow Times founder and Dutch media entrepreneur, dies at 72. From the Moscow Times. Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement. He died from injuries sustained in a sailing accident . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for a second report and HERE for an appreciation, both from the Moscow Times.

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FROM OCT. 19, 2017  Derk Sauer on journalism, Russia and being a black sheep. Michele A. Berdy of the Moscow Times sat down with her former boss and passed along some of what he said, beginning with: “I come from a standard middle-class family: my father was the director of a pension fund; my mother was a stay-at-home mom while we were young, but she . . . READ MORE . . .

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