Russian editors "fired over stories that irked officials"

A man walks towards the RBC media group office building in Moscow, Russia, April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A former editor of a Russian media group described how he and colleagues were pushed out over reporting that angered officials, in the first public account of the taming of Russia's last big news organisation willing to take on the Kremlin.

In his first public comments since his dismissal along with two other top editors from RBC media group in May, Roman Badanin told Reuters that he and his colleagues were fired in the wake of a campaign of pressure on the group's billionaire owner that came to a head after they published a story on the "Panama Papers" leaks.