Russia

“We should be free rather than behind bars"

The Russian state is tightening its grip over the church, the media and the courts. Russia claims to be a democracy, but the sentence against the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot could not possibly take place in a democracy.

Children to dissidents in Russia

What happens to the children of dissidents? To tell an unwelcome truth or to protest against oppression takes a lot of personal courage. But only too often the authorities tries to silence dissidents by threatening their children. Oksana Chelysheva, Russian journalist living in exile, tells the story of six-year old Ivan Aksenov.

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