Probe against editor who reprinted cartoons

Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against the editor of a newspaper which became the first Russian media outlet to reprint the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked violence in Muslim countries, officials said today.

The Prosecutor General’s office said in a statement that officials in the Vologda region, some 300 miles north-east of Moscow, have started a probe of Anna Smirnova on charges of using her position to incite hatred,