Vadim F. Lurie Facebook March 23, 2016 The people’s assembly [to publicize an appeals hearing in the case of Ildar Dadin, sentenced in December 2015 to three years in prison for the heretofore unknown offense of “repeat unauthorized protesting”] did not come off. [Nor did Dadin’s appeals hearing in Moscow City Court: it was postponed to a later date.] … Continue reading The Crime of Speaking Up in Russia: Solidarity with Dadin and Polyudova