Russia Expands Onslaught on Critics

Click to expand Image A smart phone user reads MBKh Media news site, one of three news outlets whose websites were blocked on August 4, 2021.   © 2021 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images With Russia’s September 19 parliamentary elections fast approaching, every day begins with new reports of arbitrary arrests, interrogations, and other attacks on critical voices. Today there were three new victims of the Kremlin’s war against free expression. Independent news outlets MBKh-Media, Open Media, and Open Rights announced they would shutter after the governmental communications oversight body,…

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