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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 62%. (I'm a bot)


A court in the Russian capital ordered the closure of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of Russia's most prominent and respected human rights organizations, on Wednesday.
Last month, Russia's Justice Ministry filed a court order to shut the group down, claiming that it had violated unspecified "Legal requirements" while carrying out its activities, according to a statement on the group's website.
The Moscow Helsinki Group was founded in 1976 by a group of Russian dissidents led by Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov and was named for the landmark 1975 Helsinki Accords on human rights.


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Even the USSR didn’t close this group down. >

They however imprisoned 8 members of the group, 6 were stripped of citizenship. >

Guess they have 'other' plans that don't include human rights. >

This country is such a joke >

Russia has never never had democracy. And remember Dostoyevsky- true salvation can only be gained through suffering. A truly masochistic culture.