Lyubov Sobol: Russia is not Putin but ‘is embodied by its 146 million citizens’

The Russian president is terrified of free and fair elections as his recent crackdown demonstrates, writes Lyubov Sobol

Russia is not synonymous with its president, Vladimir Putin, nor with his United Russia party, nor with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a private military company carrying out the Kremlin’s wishes in Syria and eastern Ukraine.