The Russian Supreme Court ordered a prominent human rights group, the International Memorial Society, to liquidate, the group announced on Twitter Tuesday.
Why it matters: The closure is a major blow to the country's shrinking civil society and a continuation of the Kremlin's campaign to stifle political dissent and crack down on groups advocating for democratic reforms.
There is not one period of time in the history of that pathetic piece of shit country it has been good to be an average Russian citizen, and those backward morons can't figure it out. I don't know if it is the climate, the vodka, or both. What a pathetic excuse for a country.