On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the amended law " Kremlin Speaker Dmitry Peskov tried to assure that allegedly "

“There is no one in the Russian Federation who would be persecuted for political reasons. There is legislation and according to the current legislation, people are prosecuted for suspicion of committing certain crimes. But there is no political persecution in Russia, ”said Peskov.

For years, experts have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin has transformed his country from a nascent democracy that emerged in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union into a revanchist, revisionist power seeking to aggressively assert the Kremlin's dominance - both globally and within Russia.. This has been indicated by sporadic outbreaks over the past decade, including the invasion of Ukraine, hybrid warfare against the West, and domestic political repression that increasingly stifles Russian civil society..

Doug Klein of the Atlantic Council's Eurasian Center wrote in a column for The Hill that Putin's Russia is exactly what we feared..

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The world was outraged when it saw how Putin's internal repression fully manifested itself against the leader of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny, who was first poisoned by the special services and then arrested on trumped-up charges when he returned home to Russia after recovering abroad.. While Navalny is serving his sentence in a colony, the Kremlin declared his network an "