A Russian provincial lawmaker who, in a rare show of defiance, accused the Kremlin of lying about whether it sent its forces to fight in Ukraine was stripped of his seat in the local parliament on Thursday. Lev Shlosberg was beaten up last year by unknown assailants days after he alleged that paratroopers buried at […]
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