TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ROMAIN COLAS AND MARINA KORENEVA
Margarita Yudina, 54, who was kicked in the stomach by a policeman during a rally in Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's support, caresses a cat in her house in the town of Luga about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Saint Petersburg on April 10, 2021. - Rouslan Chaveddinov has a bitter memory of his time under the flag: for a year, this Russian opponent was forced to serve on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, in the Arctic, in the midst of polar bears. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)