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Election season in Russia: violent acts and criminal cases against rights defenders, political activists

This week, the pressure on rights defenders, Open Russia and Navalny activists has turned increasingly violent.

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Memorial's office in Nazran, Ingushetia. Source: Memorial.

This article is part of our partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia.

Russia’s presidential elections are drawing close and the machinery of repression, which is working overtime, has apparently no intention to stop. We continue to cover these events.