Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting at the Kremlin in Russia, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

Vladimir Putin’sRussia is resorting to Soviet-era methods to quash anti-war protesters, according to the United Nations.

Moscow has been cracking down on any resistance to its barbaric war in Ukraine ever since it invaded the neighbouring nation back in 2022.

And now the UN’s special rapporteur on rights in Russia, Mariana Katzarova, has told reporters in Geneva this week that Moscow’s state-sponsored repression is inspired by the oppressive tactics seen during the USSR.

She said: “Punitive psychiatry has returned as a tool against anti-war voices.”

Pointing to the Kremlin’s own response to her report on Russian repression, Katzarova said Putin’s ministers have been calling her work illegitimate, and undermining her........

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