For Russia´s students, the price of protest can be high
(World News Russia)

Students have featured prominently in Russia´s latest wave of anti-corruption protest, and now they`re facing repression as a result. 12 June: Police detain Oleg Alexeev during an anti-corruption protest in the city centre of Kaliningrad, Russia. (c) Private. Two weeks ago, a third-year law student In Kaliningrad, at the western end of Russia, learned he was being expelled from his university. The management of the Kant Baltic Federal University denied that Oleg Alexeev´s role in organising a public protest on 12 June had anything to do with their decision. However, the sequence of events that led to Alexeev´s expulsion suggests otherwise. In early June, Alexeev, 21, filed a notification...