After a "special audit" of their editorial content, Mark Ames, editor of The Exile, has announced the paper is folding.
The bi-weekly free paper for English-speaking expats in Moscow has survived beatings, death threats, police intimidation, sexually transmitted diseases, censorship, and calls for Congressional investigations.  All of these were the results of pranks that include a forged letter from US Congressmen accusing Russian officials of stealing IMF money and throwing a pie allegedly made from horse semen in the face of the NY Times Moscow bureau chief.  Throughout their history, they remained committed to exposing corruption and hypocrisy and having a good time.

Although earlier stories on the site today said the paper was done, they are attempting a last ditch fundraising effort.

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http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=19219&IBLOCK_ID=35

Mark Ames dispatch in Radar: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/06/russian-government-press-feedom-putin-ames-medvedev.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile