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Maryana Torocheshnikova is an editor and presenter for the program You Have The Right, as well as being a court reporter. She has worked with RFE/RL since 2000. A former correspondent of the Agentstvo Sudebnoi Informatsii, a Russian judicial news outlet, Torocheshnikova was born in Tver, where she attended university and began her career at local newspaper Tverskaya Zhizn.

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Before fleeing Russia in August, Pavel Filatyev penned a bombshell exposé of how things were going for his paratrooper unit in the war in Ukraine. "The sooner Russian citizens at very least stop being afraid to say 'war' and 'we don't want war,' the sooner it will end," he said in an interview.
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After years of violent abuse from her husband, Marem Aliyeva disappeared. Now her sister is struggling against sexism, threats, and official indifference to find out what happened.
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The father of a Moscow student jailed for alleged ties to Islamic State (IS) militants believes his daughter has fallen victim to both the extremist group and Russian authorities.
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Health professionals in Russia have launched a protest campaign against a new reform they say will mean the destruction of the country's health-care system. In Moscow, cuts, redundancies, and hospital closures are already in full swing.
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Russia Blocks Websites Critical Of Kremlin

Russian authorities have blocked access to several websites known for their criticism of the government. The move is part of what critics denounce as a deepening crackdown on independent media.
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Putin Protester Faces Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment

Russian investigators say they are wrapping up their probe into 17 protesters who allegedly took part in "mass disorders" during a May 6 opposition rally in Moscow. Investigators on October 15 asked that one of the protesters be forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward and said another defendant will be tried behind closed doors after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer. Lawyers and rights groups are stunned by the severity of the charges against the demonstrators, some of whom face up to 10 years in jail.
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Russian Psychologists 'Appalled' By Expert Analysis In Pussy Riot Case

About 100 psychologists and other academics have signed an open letter calling the expert conclusions used by the prosecution in the Pussy Riot trial a "professional disgrace." Without the expert analysis, prosecutors would have been unable to argue the case on charges of "premeditated hooliganism…motivated by religious hatred or hostility" against three members of the feminist punk rock collective.

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