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The Change of Power in Russia Will Be Very Similar to My Arrest

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The Change of Power in Russia Will Be Very Similar to My Arrest

Letter from jail: Detained student says change is coming to Russia.

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Yegor Zhukov in a Moscow courtroom

Yegor Zhukov is a 21-year-old political science student currently awaiting trial for participating in a protest rally calling for free elections in Moscow in late July. He faces up to 8 years in prison and wrote this letter from pre-trial detention. On Tuesday, Zhukov was charged with public appeals for extremist activity committed with the use of the Internet.


In the published letter above, Russian student Yegor Zhukov muses on his arrest and what will become of his homeland.

After he wrote the above opinion piece while in jail, the Putin regime sentenced Yegor Zhukov to 3 years in prison.

Related: Russian Student Protester Zhukov Given Three-Year Prison Term
 
The Putin regime needs to go.
 
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