Images of the exterior the Supreme Court in Moscow as it continues to consider a request to shut down Memorial, the country's most prominent rights group and a pillar of its civil society who are in court for alleged violations of its designation as a "foreign agent". Memorial is facing its biggest threat since being founded by Soviet dissidents including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov in 1989.

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