To follow up on my story from a week ago, journalist/dissident Larisa Arap has been released from a Russian bughouse. From Bloomberg:
A Russian journalist won release after 46 days of forcible confinement in a psychiatric hospital, a case human rights groups likened to the Soviet-era practice of locking up dissidents in clinics.
Larisa Arap, 48, who had written an article on maltreatment of children at a mental clinic in the northern city of Apatity, was hospitalized against her will on July 5.
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