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Topic - The Other Russia

The Other Russia ( Drugaya Rossiya), sometimes cited as Another Russia, is an umbrella coalition that gathered opponents of former President of Russia Vladimir Putin. The coalition brings together representatives from a wide variety of political and human rights movements, national-bolsheviks and Communist groups (though the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is conspicuously absent), as well as individual citizens. - Source: Wikipedia

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