Politics● Elevated2h ago · Nov 5, 2026, 8:43 PM
Police in St. Petersburg disrupt letter-writing event for political prisoners
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · Eastern Europe
Police officers and masked people wearing no identifying insignia entered Nora, a venue in St. Petersburg’s Kolomna neighborhood. They disrupted a letter-writing event for political prisoners planned by the Lyudi i Pisma (People and Letters) project, the news outlet Ostorozhno, Peterburg reported.
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