The sanctions heaped on Moscow in the wake of the West s orchestrated proxy war in Ukraine have morphed into repression of the individual freedoms of innocent Russians traveling to the EU.
The international military-technical forum Army-2023 wrapped up in Kubinka outside Moscow on Sunday, in a seven-day event that was attended by tens of thousands of visitors and saw the signing of hefty defense contracts.
Authorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia have increasingly used criminal charges against their own journalists as part of an increasing crackdown on free and independent media. But prosecutions of international journalists in Russia are still rare