A new stage of repression: Ekaterina Schulmann on the Kremlin’s changing approach to silencing dissent [Meduza]

18 July 2022 On July 15, a judge in Komsomolsk-on-Amur acquitted artist and LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova after three years of legal proceedings. Tsvetkova was accused of “distributing pornography” after she published drawings of…

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Eyewitnesses on the 23 January Rally. Ekaterina Shulman: “The percentage of those who took part in a protest for the first time is extremely high”

24 January 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Original Source The Bell  The unsanctioned rally on January 23 in support of Aleksei Navalny turned out to be one of the highest attended in recent years, despite…

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