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New threat to Russia’s dissenters

By Free Media Online · June 4, 2010 · Comments Off
NED, Russia · Tagged: christmas, eurasia, father, KGB, lyudmila, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, moscow helsinki group, ngos/civil society, operatives-were, placidly-unpacking, Russia, russian, snegurochka, soviet

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Even hardened KGB operatives were unnerved by veteran dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva: Back in the Soviet era, she would disconcert KGB officers by placidly unpacking oranges, then a rarity, while being questioned. Last New Year’s Eve, the 82-year-old dressed up as Snegurochka — Father Christmas’ granddaughter according to Russian fairy tales — in order to dodge a

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