30 years after the fall of the USSR, the exile of dissidents continues

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A watchtower stands in a museum commemorating the victims of Soviet-era political repressions located in a former prison camp, about 110 km northeast of the city of Perm, West Siberia, Russia, the Friday March 6, 2015 (illustrative image).

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By: Anastasia Becchio

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Thirty years ago, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR, disappeared, marking the end of the Cold War and of a process that had started at the end of the 1980s. Three decades later and 10 years later massive demonstrations against the power, Russia of Vladimir Poutine knows a hardening: political militants are imprisoned, worried by justice or harassed.

Dozens of NGOs, media and rights defenders have received the status of " 

".

So today, as in the days of the Soviet Union, Russia has its dissidents.

A good number of them live in exile in the states resulting from the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Report in Paris and Vilnius by Anastasia Becchio and Elena Gabrielian.

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