Thousands of people at antiwar protests were arrested by police in over 60 cities across Russia this Sunday.
This comes as Russia becomes increasingly economically isolated. Visa and Mastercard have become the last corporations to cut — or, the latest corporations to cut or reduce ties to Russia.
We’re joined now by Ilya Budraitskis. He is a Russian historian and political writer. He’s the author of the award-winning book. We last spoke to him from Moscow in February. He has since left Russia., Ilya. If you can talk about the crackdown on the protests and the press? Again, at this point, I think it’s over 13,000 people have been arrested across Russia for protesting.Yeah.
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