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Trial of a Russian opponent Ilya Yashin, which faces ten years in prison, began on Wednesday. In recent years, his fellow fighters have been forced go into exileshut up or even killed.
killed
Former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov he became the chief critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 2000s.
The politician opposed the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Moscow in 2014 and military support Kremlin separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Nemtsov was killed in February 2015 near Kremlin. He was 55 years old.
His supporters accused the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to order murderalthough he denies it. Five Chechens were convicted of murder.
Four years ago, in October 2006, another opponent of President Putin and Kadyrov was assassinated. This is Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead at the entrance to her house in Moscow.
Journalist from New Newspaperthe country’s main independent media, for years documented and denounced the crimes of the Russian army in Chechnya.
arrested
Alexey Navalny, The 46-year-old anti-corruption activist poisoned himself in Siberia in 2020, which the Kremlin blamed. The Russian authorities deny any responsibility.
He was hospitalized in Germany and stopped when he returned to Russia in January 2021. Navalny has been serving a nine-year prison sentence since March on charges of fraud.
Opponent keeps judging Kremlin and described the attack in Ukraine “tragedies” and “crimes against humanity”.
Another imprisoned adversary Vladimir Kara-Murza, 41, claims to have survived two poisonings because of his political activities.
He was arrested in April and charged with spreading “false information” about the Russian army. He was also charged with “high treason”, a crime punishable by 20 years in prison.
Another influential critic, Yevgeny Roizman, 60, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg, was arrested in August. The authorities accuse him of “discrediting” the army, although he is released pending trial. He faces three years in prison.
exiled
Most of opponents who stayed in Russia they are imprisoned. The rest fled the country.
One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovskyformer oil tycoon who served ten years behind bars in the early 2000s. After his release in 2013, he lives in London, where he finances opposition platforms.
Many Khodorkovsky supporters left Russia in 2021 as repression intensified. The offensive in Ukraine the following year also multiplied the departure of opponents from the country.
“Foreign agents”
In recent years, dozens of media outlets, NGOs, journalists, activists or artists have been declared “foreign agents”.
The status must be systematically mentioned in all publications under pain of sanctions.
Then go Memorial, one of the pillars of human rights and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October, was dissolved by the Russian authorities for violating this controversial law. The decision sparked a wave of convictions.
(According to AFP)
Source: RPP
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