The past few months have seen a number of opposition activists from the western Siberian city of Yekaterinburg arrested, threatened, prosecuted and imprisoned. Some have even been forced to flee the country. Might this be the prelude to a more nationwide campaign, wonders Pavel Stroilov?
At the beginning of September, the Independent’s Mary Dejevsky presented an improbably flattering portrait of St Petersburg's governor Valentina Matviyenko. Pavel Stroilov was one of 33 co-complainants who referred the article to the Press Complaints Commission for alleged political bias. Here he
