Since the jailing of politician Alexei Navalny at the start of the year in Russia, not a week goes by without the arrests of activists or journalists. As protest becomes increasingly dangerous, one young Russian artist is using her work to document a new generation’s political awakening. Theo Merz has the story from Moscow.
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