On March 20, Denis Voronenkov met a Post journalist in the lobby bar of Kiev’s five-star Premier Palace Hotel, along with his wife, seeming to feel he was in danger. “For our personal safety, we can’t let them know where we are,” he said. Both Mr. Voronenkov and his wife were former members of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, but defected to Ukraine, where he became an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
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Police officers detain a man during an unauthorised anti-corruption rally in central Moscow on March 26.
