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AP Interview: Kremlin cracking down on dissent before vote

by Harriet MorrisVladimir Isachenkov
| June 1, 2021 9:03 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities are cracking down on dissent before a crucial parliamentary election in September, in what a leading Kremlin critic on Tuesday described as an attempt to sideline opponents.

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