Compulsory psychiatric treatment of people accused of dissent has fallen from its former prevalence in Russia, with laws passed after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Concerns about a return of Soviet-era punitive psychiatry are arising, however, after the court-ordered psychiatric treatment of Mikhail Kosenko, an activist who attacked a police officer during a demonstration.
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