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The Putinbots had this post deleted so I'll just repost it so that a whole new group of readers can enjoy it:

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Amnesty International's 2016/2017 report on Russia:

"Restrictions on rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly increased. "

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia/russian-federation/report-russian-federation/

Human Rights Watch:

"The government in 2016 further tightened control over the already-shrinking space for free expression, association, and assembly and intensified persecution of independent critics. "

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/russia


If it looks like a brutal repressive dictatorship, quacks like a brutal repressive dictatorship and walks like a brutal repressive dictatorship, it probably is a brutal repressive dictatorship.

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