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David Cameron must stand up to Putin

The Guardian

European leaders could honour the memory of Russian reformer Yelena Bonner by helping activists confront this corrupt cabal.

The death on Saturday of Yelena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, will be lamented across Russia. Her trenchant criticisms of Vladimir Putin’s autocracy – she was the first signatory of the “Putin Must Go” manifesto last March – was echoing as recently as last Thursday at a conference of reformists in Moscow.

Whether her death will have any effect on the decline in democracy in her beloved Russia may be discovered this week.

Russia’s justice minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, is the puppet who will announce this week whether or not the Putin regime will allow any opposition parties to put up candidates in December’s parliamentary elections and the presidential poll next March.