Crackdown on dissent becomes the hallmark of Putin’s 24 years in power

March 7, 2024 admin

Russian police detain a man trying to lay flowers at a monument in St. Petersburg to honour Alexei Navalny on Feb. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the…

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Abortions in Russia | A chequered history from Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin

October 27, 2023 admin

Abortions were banned under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin but a commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again. Although abortion is still legal and widely available, new restrictions are being considered as President Vladimir Putin takes an increasingly socially conservative turn and…

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