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'Civil Death': The Kremlin Is Building A Legal Purgatory For Exiled Russians

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'Civil Death': The Kremlin Is Building A Legal Purgatory For Exiled Russians

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  • currentsapi-gapfill(Mixed)By Mike Eckel

    At the time he fled Russia in September 2022, Aleksandr Menyukov was a witness in a criminal investigation targeting a close friend: a poet whose street readings of anti-war verses were considered a crime. Hundreds of thousands of Russians had fled after President Vladimir Putin …

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