http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/06/search-and-destroy-navalny-sobchak.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
A detailed account of what happened to several prominent activists and Putin opponents...this week...on 'Russia Day'...and just before a planned Moscow protest.
Julia Ioffe describes searches at Alexey Navalny's...and Kseniya Sobchak's apartments...that looked like hurricanes had hit them...all under the watchful eyes of the Investigative Committee.
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