“They actually made politicians out of us.” Repression in Vladimir Putin’s Russia is making young activists more defiant We followed three women struggling against the might of the Russian state In January tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets as part of the country’s largest demonstrations in a decade. Protesters marched in 130 cities across Russia’s 11 time zones, chanting from the B
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