GENEVA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N.

DARA MASSICOT is a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was previously a Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation and a Senior ...

Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

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