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...squeeze on the independent press and new laws that could be used to silence opposition voices. "There may no longer be shortages of groceries and long lines at every street corner, but Russia today is still a place where human rights and freedom are in short supply," says Ludmilla Alexeyeva, a doyenne of Russian human-rights activists, who co-founded the important Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976. "People who question the policies of our government are increasingly targeted. People who work for human rights are increasingly under attack. So, are we in Russia? Are we back in the U.S.S.R...
...longer elected but appointed. Most key national media are in the hands of state or state-controlled corporations, and Russian activists live in fear of the consequences when they openly criticize Putin. "There may no longer be shortages of groceries and long lines at every street corner," says Ludmilla Alexeyeva, the doyen of human-rights activists in Moscow, "but Russia today is still a place where human rights and freedom are in short supply...
...discredit Moscow. But for many Russian élites, the whole macabre spectacle has heightened anxieties about the Putin government's backsliding into communist-era intrigue and repression. "People who question the policies of our government are increasingly targeted. People who work for human rights are increasingly under attack," says Alexeyeva. "And even people who support this work are potentially in danger of being singled out by the government. So are we in Russia? Are we back in the U.S.S.R.?" It's becoming harder to tell the difference...
Looking like the shy and slightly awkward newlyweds they are, Alexei Semyonov, 25, and his wife, Liza Alexeyeva, 26, were reunited in Boston last week after 3½ years of separation. Alexei, the stepson of Soviet Dissident and 1975 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, 60, and Liza, fell in love when they were students in Moscow. Alexei emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 and arranged a proxy marriage with Liza last June. The Soviet government, however, refused to permit Liza to join her husband. Only after a much publicized, 17-day hunger strike by Sakharov and his wife-now living...
...week's end, the government newspaper Izvestia published a tiny news item on the affair. The article, in its entirety, said: "In connection with the fact that the parents of Y.K. Alexeyeva have withdrawn their objections to her leaving the Soviet Union, a decision has been taken to grant her an exit visa by way of exception." It was the first announcement to the Soviet public that Sakharov had won his battle with the Kremlin...