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From: Bill Wolf2/14/2023 6:51:31 AM
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Secretive Network Rescues Russia’s Antiwar Dissidents in Nick of Time
By Neil MacFarquhar and Alina Lobzina
Feb. 14, 2023, 12:01 a.m. ET

Hundreds of people facing long prison sentences are being spirited out of the country by groups that arrange daring escapes, with one trip using six different cars over more than 4,000 miles.
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“In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31. He had just had a tearful reunion with his older brother, Vladimir, months after the siblings fled to different countries from the city of Smolensk in western Russia.

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