Vladimir Putin’s courts are stepping up repression
T this week of Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition politician, to 25 years in jail shocked even those inured to the repressiveness of Russia’s court system. Yan Rachinsky, the chair of Memorial, a human-rights group that was recently outlawed, described the length of the sentence as Stalinist. Mr…
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