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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Russia aims new legal action at two prominent dissenters

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Russia's most prominent opposition leader reported new charges against him, while a Moscow court ordered further detention of a state TV journalist-turned-anti-war protester as the Kremlin pressed its campaign against dissent Thursday.

The moves against Alexei Navalny, who is already in jail, and Marina Ovsyannikova, who fled Russia to avoid arrest, coincided with President Vladimir Putin's grant of new emergency powers to local officials to deal with what he considers security threats stemming from the Ukraine invasion.

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