Moscow Broadens Use of ‘Extremism’ to Justify MVD Deployments

By Paul Goble   After transferring thousands of Interior Ministry officers from the fight against organized crime to the struggle with extremism, the Russian government has broadened the application of “extremism” charges to keep them busy, a trend that threatens the rights and freedoms of every more law-abiding Russian citizens. In the third of her articles in “Yezhednevny zhurnal” on how ...