VLADIMIR PUTIN’S

complete dictatorial powers were evident this week with the arrest in Yekaterinburg, east of Moscow, of one of the last prominent opposition politicians who hasn’t been murdered, jailed or forced into exile.

Yevgeny Roizman, 59, was lifted by armed and masked police for describing the war in Ukraine as an ‘invasion’, when every Russian knows it’s just a ‘special military operation’.

Since February, more than 16,000 Russians have been arrested for protesting the invasion and 224 of them are facing jail for calling it a ‘war’.