Year after year, authorities increasingly cracked down on the rights and freedoms in Russia. Independent media have been deprived of a voice. “Foreign agents” and “undesirable organisations” have been progressively stigmatised. The right to peaceful protest has been taken away.
Russia used new laws to whitewash its Soviet past and justify the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The last wave of war-related legislation has silenced the remaining dissenters or forced them to flee.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) prepared a report about 50 repressive laws that were adopted in Russia in the last 5 years. Mediazona presents an interactive version of this report.
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