Putin fires police officers involved in journalist’s case

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed two senior police officers involved in the arrest of an investigative journalist on drug charges that later were dropped when the government admitted there was no evidence he committed a crime.
Ivan Golunov, 36, was reportedly beaten and denied a lawyer for more than 12 hours a week ago following drug-dealing charges he rejected as sham.
The arrest provoked public outrage, and the interior ministry dropped all charges against Gol