Independent voices are being snuffed out across Russia in Putin’s other war against local dissent | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The Kremlin’s three-year war against independent groups has been driven by government distortion and hysteria, but it just crossed a new line into the absurd. This week, as all eyes were drawn to President Putin’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York and Russia’s intervention in Syria, an appeals court in Moscow upheld a…