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Critics express anger at Switzerland for hosting Russia 'war criminals'

This video grab from a handout footage released by the Joint Press Service of Courts of Bashkortostan Republic shows Olga Komleva, 46, previously volunteered for Navalny's party, in Ufa City Court on July 29, 2025. [AFP]

More than 200 Kremlin critics and former political prisoners have expressed outrage at the visit of a high-ranking Moscow delegation to Switzerland, accusing Europe of hosting "war criminals" despite the invasion of Ukraine.

Opponents of Vladimir Putin fear that more than three years into Moscow's invasion of Ukraine the West might be ready to start bringing Russia in from the cold and revive relations with the Kremlin.

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