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Putin Critic Committed to Mental Hospital

Disturbing echo of Soviet era tactics

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 6, 2008 4:20 AM CST

(Newser) – An opponent of Russian president Vladimir Putin has been imprisoned  in a mental hospital in a move reminiscent of the "punitive psychiatry" used to discredit dissidents in the old Soviet era. Roman Nikolaichik, a member of chess champ Garry Kasparov's anti-Putin coalition, Other Russia,...   Read full story »

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