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vil Society in Russia,' Human Rights Watch, February 24, 2017, Ittps://www.hrw.org/ news/2017/02/24/briefine-shrinkine-spacecivil-society-russia. 10. Tanya Lokshina, 'Russia Civil Society Deemed 'Undesirable,- Open Democracy, May 20, 2015, https://www.hrw.ore/ news/7015/05/20/ressian.rivil.sociev-deemed-undesir

evision aired a documentary meant to justify one of the more shameful events of the Soviet period, the 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The invasion was undertaken to crush the reformist Prague Spring movement, whose leaders were moving increasingly in the direction of jettisoning

ose associates, pro- government activists, and representatives of both Amnesty Inter- national and Human Rights Watch. “It was totally bizarre,” said Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch, who attended. “Although it was billed as a press conference,” she recalled, “there was no press or photog

imea and other parts of eastern Ukraine in February and March 2014. Unlike with previous Russian troop movements, such as those into Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany during the Cold War, the weeklong massing of Russian elite troops and sophisticated equipment for the move into Ukraine almost tota

l Society in Russia,” Human Rights Watch, February 24, 2017, https:/Awww.hrw.org/ news/2017/02/24/briefing-shrinking-space-civil-society-russia. 10. Tanya Lokshina, “Russia Civil Society Deemed ‘Undesirable,” Open Democracy, May 20, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/ news/2015/05/20/russian-civil-society-deemed-undesira

television aired a documentary meant to justify one of the more shameful events of the Soviet period, the 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia. The invasion was undertaken to crush the reformist Prague Spring movement, whose leaders were moving increasingly in the direction of jettisoning st