This week, “Russia denied registration of a key opposition political party Wednesday, effectively barring it from upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections that the Kremlin had hinted might be open to some competition,” the Wall Street Journal reports. According to opposition leader Boris Nemtsov “”his is an announcement that there will be no elections, because there will be no opposition parties…The decision comes from the very top.”
In response to the Kremlin’s latest power grab, the Russia Working Group issued the following statement:
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