Ukrainian Weekly Editor | The Ukrainian Weekly | Subscription Aleksandr Cherkasov There were no mass protests in Russia in 2023. There were no hair-raising scenes of riot police in helmets and body armor beating students and shoving elderly demonstrators into police vans. Nonetheless, the harsh repression of dissent was the daily business of President Vladimir...
How the Russian state ramped up suppression of dissent in 2023: ‘It worked in the Soviet Union, and it works now’
By Robert Coalson / RFE/RL7 Mins Read