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Masked vigilantes storm birthday party in latest Kremlin-backed crackdown on dissent
A 30th birthday celebration in Arkhangelsk turned violent when masked men stormed the venue, leaving a woman facing a blasphemy charge for a red neon cross. The attack was led by Russkaya Obshina, a nationalist group now operating with near-impunity under Putin’s expanded crackdown on ‘Western liberalism.’