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Grassroots Repression Russian-style First, the authorities persecuted activists. Then they went after journalists. And now, they’ve trained their sights on lawyers. Mikhail Japaridze / TASS With the arrest of lawyer Ivan Pavlov who represents the Meduza news portal and journalist Ivan Safronov, among others the Russian authorities have begun a new chapter in their repressive practices. In fact, they have been dusting off long-forgotten articles of the Criminal Code and using them against citizens in new and increasingly creative ways. Leaders have crippled opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s entire political organization in one fell swoop simply by labeling it as “extremist” under the Criminal Code. That move was so easy and effective that Kremlin leaders are probably wondering why they didn’t do it sooner.

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