Sep 3, 2023
In all of this, Russian people are suffering in ways unimaginable. There is no freedom of speech, and the press is silenced,:
“Over the past year, Russia has charged 482 people under new wartime censorship laws rushed through in the days immediately after the invasion began in February 2022,” according to the Financial Times. “It has jailed 136 of them. The crackdown has essentially crushed dissent in Russia—defined under the law as anything deviating from the Kremlin’s official line—prompting hundreds of activists and independent journalists to flee the country.”
