Time passes but the Empire stands. Vladyslav Yesypenko, a Ukrainian freelance journalist, RFE/RL contributor, and grandson of Afanasiy Fursa, who the Soviet secret police executed on the accusation of being “an enemy of the people” in 1938, is awaiting his verdict 83 years later. And this is, just like in the case of his grandfather, only for his dissident views.
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An illustration picture taken on Nov. 28, 2019 in Moscow shows an Apple map with the Crimea peninsula on a smartphone screen.