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The Protest of Mikhail Friedman and Biotr Ivan

Many Russians have been placed on EU and US sanctions list after being identified as regime insiders by Navinnytz Faber-Kaz. The main liberal opposition to Putin remains in jail, in exile or squabbling among themselves. Volkov resigned as chairman of the Faber-kaz and would meant that the letter had been a mistake but refuses to comment on why he had written it in the first place. All he says is that there are mistakes in the EU andUS sanctions policy the system is not transparent. Does Volkov think that the Kremlin is happy that his opponents have turned on each other? Don't use that term each other, he protests. There is no political or personal

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