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RFE/RL: Tatar activist released from prison after softening of criminal code on extremism

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
A Russian law enforcement officer stands near an entrance to the Lefortovo prison in Moscow on July 8, 2010.
Photo by AFP

A Tatar activist from the Russian republic of Tatarstan has been released from prison on March 4 after the article on extremism in the Russian Criminal Code was partially decriminalized.

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