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The Baltic based Meduza.io media project was also labelled a “foreign agent” and is now required to carry a warning to readers in double sized font on all its pages that it works for a foreign government that it claims will kill it as a publication. Meduza has been actively reporting government abuses, human rights and corruption.
This is flat out repression. Russia’s non-systemic opposition is fissiparous and ineffective. Navalny doesn't enjoy much support as a politician but he is widely respected as an anti-corruption activist and his documentary “Putin’s Palace” has over 100mn views. Navalny has sparked a national conversation about what sort of country and government regular Russians want, which in effect holds the government to account. Losing Navalny’s voice is a step back for Russia as this is a conversation that is badly needed and part of the political maturation of the Russian electorate, which is far from complete.
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