Anyone who visited Russia for the first time in 20 years would immediately notice that the Kremlin has reduced the space of freedom in the country to what it was at the end of the 1980s, Aleksandr Podrabinek, a Soviet and then Russian dissident, observes.
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Paul Goble: Russia moving from authoritarianism to totalitarianism
A woman enters an underground passage on a sunny autumn day in downtown Moscow on Sept. 29, 2021.