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Podcast: Inside Geneva
Episode: Are Democracies Copying Russia's Repressive Playbook?
Description: Send us Fan MailOn our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we ask: are other countries following Russia’s lead in cracking down on freedom of expression?“I feel as though I’m monitoring a repression handbook used by the Russian government against its own civil society and, unfortunately, this handbook has been copied by other leaders in some democratic countries,” says Mariana Katzarova, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia.Russian journalists warn us not to take our freedoms for granted.“It’s been more than a year since I was...