‘Where Are You Taking Me?’: Illegal Detentions of Mothers on the Rise in Russia
Natalia Tikhonova was at an anti-war rally in Moscow’s Zaryadye Park, a few hundred meters from the Kremlin, when police detained her. “Where are you taking me?” the 30-year-old mother with a young son asked as she was put inside a police van. “To improve the gene pool of the nation,” a police officer replied.…