MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russian opposition youth group Pora announced on Friday that its leader has been granted political asylum in the United Kingdom, and called the decision an acknowledgement of Russia's democratic failings. According to Russian media reports, Andrei Sidelnikov was given a travel ban by Russia's Federal Security Service late last year. However, he managed to leave the country via Belarus, which has a free border with Russia, then made his way via Ukraine to Britain. The group said on its website: "The British government has granted... Sidelnikov political asylum. We see this as an acknowledgement that present-day Russia is not a democratic country, but a country where rights and freedoms of its citizens are not respected, a country where people are persecuted for political reasons." According to...
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