Russia is expected to label the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Memorial "extremist" on Thursday, a designation that will make it easier to prosecute the group's supporters and those who work with it.
Russia had already liquidated the group's operations in 2021, forcing it to work largely in exile.
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