Russian court bans civil rights group Memorial

The Supreme Court in Russia has banned one of the country's best known and oldest human rights organisations, International Memorial, in the latest move against critics of the Kremlin. We speak to our colleague from BBC Russian.

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(Photo: Russia"s Supreme Court judge, Alla Nazarova, reads the conclusion during a hearing on the International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" (International Memorial) case in Moscow, Russia, 28 December 2021. Credit: YURI KOCHETKOV/EPA)