Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 19 – In 2003, shortly
after the beginning of the Putin era, 28 Russians were convicted of crimes
against the state such as treason, espionage, or extremism; but by 2016, the
number had risen to 588, according to data released by officials of the Russian
Supreme Court (ixtc.org/2017/07/yuristy-chislo-politzaklyuchennyh-v-rossii-rastet-bystrymi-tempami/).
Unless one accepts the
counter-intuitive notion that Russia has faced a dramatic increase in the
number of actions that deserve to be classified in this way, one can only agree
with the New Chronicle of Current Events that “the number of political
prisoners in Russia is growing rapidly.”
And these figures which are given
for each year show not only that those charged with such state crimes have
increased in number since Putin’s third term began but are rising with each
passing year since that time, a trend that suggests there will be even more
such “crimes” discovered in the future.
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