Edward Snowden has just been granted Russian citizenship. This comes at a time when 250,000 Russian citizens are reported to have fled their country, not so much for fear of having to join (the partial mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin concerns only veterans with combat experience), but because they are alarmed that Russia might go back to the authoritarianism of the tsarist and Soviet eras.
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