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Russia: prison population falls to historic low, deputy chief justice says
Russia’s prison population has fallen to a historic low, the newly appointed first deputy chief justice of the Supreme Court said, coming after years of the Russian military’s recruitment of incarcerated people to fight in Ukraine.
Source: The Moscow Times (04/03/2026)