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MOSCOW – Russia has released anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin from a Siberian prison, freeing the first person jailed under new rules that made some forms of non-violent protest a criminal offence, his lawyer told Reuters on Sunday.

Dadin’s release had been expected after the Supreme Court had overturned his conviction on Wednesday.

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