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On the recordJune 12, 2013
This crackdown is not about silencing opponents only on the political fringes. This is about stifling all who would question consolidation of power under President Putin and his Siloviki allies.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer discusses the broad repression of dissent in Russia under Putin.

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