The protests are only going to escalate, as will the level of violence that the russian state is prepared to unles against her own people. Ban i think it will be answered with more terror, with more violence, and will hear more horrors that young russians are subjected to at police stations. The ets had complete control over the media, but that didn't change the fact that nobody actually, you know, most people didn't believe that.
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with—what is going on in Ukraine. Dissent is being met with increasing repression. A wave of jihadism is crashing across the states of West Africa and the battle lines are moving south. And reasons for both hope and concern in our annual glass-ceiling index.
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