If one compares the language prosecutors are using to charge imprisoned opposition leader Aleksey Navalny with the provisions of the notorious Article 58 used to carry out Stalin’s Great Terror, one finds there is little to choose between them, according to Yevgeniya Albats, the editor in chief of The New Times.
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This handout photo taken on June 22, 2021 and released by Moscow's Preobrazhensky district court on June 23, 2021, shows jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny as he is seen on a screen during a hearing on his claim against the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, which designated him a flight risk, in Moscow.
