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"Russia Will Not Be Happy": Jailed St. Petersburg Dissident's Defiant Final Statement

Olga Smirnova, a St. Petersburg activist imprisoned since May 2024 for protesting in support of Ukraine and Crimean Tatars, used her final court statement to warn of inevitable retribution and to argue that family memory is a bulwark against state lies.

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