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Journalist Ali Feruz, who for months faced the prospect of deportation from Russia to Uzbekistan, is on his way to a third country after court rulings in his favor.

The independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta said on February 15 that Feruz went through passport control and would be on a flight out of Moscow within hours.

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