MOSCOW - The Kremlin has clamped down on freedoms in the run-up to Russia's presidential election, an international rights group said Tuesday. Amnesty International released a report ahead of Sunday's vote in which it said Russia had curtailed the rights of freedom of expression, association and assembly in recent years. "Human rights defenders, independent civil society organizations, political opponents and ordinary citizens have all been victims of this rollback on civil and political rights," the report said. The London-based group said the decline has been seen in authorities' breaking up...
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