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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Bryony Gooch

Political asylum seeker fighting to stay in US or face six years in prison if she returns home to Russia

An anti-war campaigner who faces years in prison if she returns home to Russia is fighting to stay in the US.

Valeriia Razheva, 23, co-founded the US branch of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAWR) in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The movement has been labelled an “undesirable organisation” by Moscow, under a law that allows prosecutors to target foreign groups they deem “a threat to the foundation of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation, the defense capability of the country or the security of the state”.

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