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Life and Death in Putin’s Gulag

by Arkady Ostrovsky
published by The Economist's 1843 magazine, United Kingdom

Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s.

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Further Credits: Jonathan Beckman, editor

ILLUSTRATIONS: MICHELLE THOMPSON
SOURCE IMAGES: EYEVINE, GETTY, AP, CAPITAL

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Arkady Ostrovsky