When the Russian authorities came for anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Vetrov he says he thought he knew where to go: Ukraine.
The country had just seen its Moscow-backed leader ousted by mass protests and plunged into a standoff with Russia as it pivoted sharply towards the West.
But now — almost three years after moving — Vetrov remains trapped in a legal black hole by a Soviet-style bureaucracy all too reminiscent of the one he thought he had left behind in Russia.
“I was hoping that at least in this country I would escape the criminal absurdity and begin to build democracy, but I …read more
Source: African news network 7
