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The death in custody of Alexeï Navalny on February 16, in more than suspicious conditions, shed harsh light on the relentless repression that has fallen in Russia on any form of protest, particularly since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The approach of the elections was marked by a new wave of searches, arrests, even violent actions carried out by the police against lawyers and volunteers who collected signatures for the candidate opposition Boris Nadejdine, finally excluded from the vote.
Artists, journalists and supporters of the protest group Pussy Riot were also targeted in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhni-Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Ulyanovsk and Samara.
Particularly in the crosshairs of the authorities these days, the wives of mobilized soldiers, who demonstrate for the return of their husbands, have been threatened with criminal action.
Sometimes, a word, a nothing, blown out of proportion by denunciation...
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