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RThe American country is not controlling the corona pandemic, the economic outlook is grim, protests in its own country and in Belarus are worrying the Kremlin, and next year there will be important elections for the lower house: this is the situation in the that President Vladimir Putin’s power apparatus goes on the offensive. The target is the opposition, the independent media and civil society. For example, “legal initiative”. The Russian non-governmental organization represents victims of human rights violations before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Its director is Vanessa Kogan, an American who has lived in Russia for eleven years, is married to a Russian human rights lawyer and has two children with dual citizenship.
In September, Kogan applied for Russian citizenship and was told earlier this week that the FSB had refused. Furthermore, the residence permit was canceled and Kogan received two weeks to leave Russia. You endanger “the security of the Russian Federation” or its citizens. The latter helps “Rechtsinitiative” with serious human rights violations. They are kidnapped, disappeared, extrajudicially executed, victims of torture and arbitrary justice. The organization also publishes reports on how young women’s genitalia continue to be mutilated in the republic of Dagestan and on “honor killings” in the North Caucasus.
