For months, Russian authorities have regularly unleashed repressive announcements on Fridays. 15 July was no different.
That day, a court in the city of Krasnodar sentenced Andrey Pivovarov, the former executive director of the now-defunct pro-democracy Open Russia Civic Movement, to four years in prison on charges of leading an ‘undesirable organisation’.
The same Friday also saw Russian federal authorities blacklist more organisations as undesirable.
