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Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer Photo shared by a Meduza readerDerk Sauer Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and went on to establish Independent Media, a publishing house built around local editions of Western glossy magazines.