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Russian Anti-Drugs Crusader Under Growing Pressure | Redux

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Russian Anti-Drugs Crusader Under Growing Pressure

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Russia's most outspoken and charismatic anti-drugs campaigner accused authorities on Tuesday of trying to close his rehabilitation center by falsely claiming it has abused patients. For more than a decade, businessman and art historian Yevgeny Roizman has been waging a crusade against drug pushers and corrupt police in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg amid a drug epidemic that has made Russia the world's largest heroin consumer. The center Roizman founded and partly funds is seen by many Russians as a model of community-driven rehab efforts, and his followers have helped police identify and arrest dozens of drug dealers. But Yekaterinburg officials have accused Roizman's team of isolating patients without their consent and using violence and forced labor as part of therapy. On Tuesday, a court in the town of Berezovsk near Yekaterinburg charged Roizman's deputy, Yevgeny Malenkin, with illegally imprisoning patients and issued an arrest warrant for him.

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Yevgeny Roizman

Overall Sentiment: -0.0753738

Relevance: 0.916528

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0.119252Roizman called the creation of his rehab center in 1998 "a riot against drug pushers, a genuine popular riot."
0"I am not holding pageants to select my patients. They are not Nobel Prize winners, and some parents brought them to me in their cars' trunks," he said. ...
0"I am not holding pageants to select my patients. They are not Nobel Prize winners, and some parents brought them to me in their cars' trunks," he said. "What I am trying to do is to make them human again."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.119252
  • Mean: 0.039750666666667
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Yevgeny Malenkin

Overall Sentiment: -0.125078

Relevance: 0.161854

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City: Yekaterinburg

Overall Sentiment: -0.322836

Relevance: 0.413417

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