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The Moscow branch of Russia’s Federal Bailiff Service has forbid attorney Mark Feygin from leaving the country, he announced today on Twitter. He was trying to reach Lithuania.

Feygin is famous for defending the three women of Pussy Riot, as well as several other Russian political cases in the years since, including Ukrainian prisoner of war Nadezhda Savchenko and oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhayev.

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