A lot of news has broken in the last 24 hours. Lets get right to it. The 2014 Winter Olympics were held in sochi, that was controversial of course because all of of the things controversial about russia. You might remember right before the sochi olympics, just a few weeks before the opening ceremonies, Vladimir Putin made a concession to his human rights critics trying to take sam some of the heat off of russia for hosting the olympics, people were upset about their human rights, international aggression, trying to take the heat off of that. Just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released some of the Political Prisoners who he was holding in russia prisons. And among the most high profile prisoners that putin released before the sochi olympics was a feminist punk band called pussy riot. I am such a prude i still find it embarrassing to say the name. That is the name of the band. The thing they were the most famous for before they the olympics was what they called punk pray
Alexei Navalny was Russia’s best-known critic at home and abroad and his sudden death last week under mysterious circumstances has dented the idea of forming an opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin’s other critics and Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya claim that he was behind the death of Navalny and the underlying aim was to send a message that any resistance to Putin is futile.
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