An anti-war politician who tried to challenge putin at the last russian presidential election has been arrested, according to his social media account.
Boris Nadezhdin was taken to a police station in a town west of moscow on Monday morning, weeks after announcing he would run as a candidate in September's duma (parliamentary) elections.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7epp3jdlo
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