Russia crackdown on protests against its war in Ukraine

SAFM
18 Apr 2023

A Russian court sentenced an opposition activist to a 25-year jail term over his criticism of the war in Ukraine. In this SAFM interview, SAIIA’s Head of the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme, Steven Gruzd, discusses Russia’s intolerance of dissenting views of its war in Ukraine.

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