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=====Yekaterina Duntsova barred from running against Putin in election===== | |||
[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/would-be-putin-challenger-duntsova-barred-running-election-campaign-team-2023-12-23/By Mark Trevelyan 12/23/23 Reuters] | |||
His (Putin's) best-known opponent, Alexei Navalny, is serving prison sentences totalling more than 30 years and his supporters say they do not even know where he is, after they were told he had been moved from his previous penal colony earlier this month. Lawyers last had access to him on Dec. 6. | |||
"Any sane person taking this step would be afraid - but fear must not win," she told Reuters in an interview in November in which she called for the release of political prisoners and said Russians were "very tired" of the conflict in Ukraine. | |||
Putin's critics said the decision showed that no one with genuine opposition views would be allowed to stand against him next March in the first presidential election since the start of the 22-month war. They see it as a fake process with only one possible outcome. | |||
=====Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary===== | =====Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary===== | ||
