Vladimir Putin has cracked down on dissent, but it hasn't stopped critics from speaking out. Many of them now live in Vilnius, Lithuania, a place some might view as the capital of free Russia.
Today is election day in Russia but there's no suspense. 71-year-old Vladimir Putin will be named the winner as he has been over the last 24 years. This time, as often, his challengers died; one, after an explosion on a plane and, Alexey Navalny, Putin's leading rival, who died last month in an Arctic prison camp. Putin has killed nearly all internal opposition to his unprovoked war in Ukraine. And yet, many courageous Russians continue the struggle outside the country.
Sergei Davidis: Oh, for sure, for sureIn Moscow, Davidis helped lead one of Russia's largest human rights groups called Memorial. It won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago but now it's banned. He told us…Sergei Davidis : Almost every day there are more and more arrests. We hear news about new political arrests. And apart from the legal side of it, more often than before, there's violence and torture.Davidis heads Memorial's project to support political prisoners.
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