02/06/2021 (Agence Europe) – On the evening of Tuesday 1 June, the spokesperson of the European External Action Service denounced the removal from a plane in St. Petersburg and subsequent detention for alleged violation of the law on ‘undesirable organisations’ of Andrei Pivovarov, former executive director of Open Russia. He faces six years in prison. “This case is not an isolated incident but confirms a continuous pattern of shrinking space for civil society, the opposition and...