WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on April 10, 2026, by non-resident senior fellows Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan: * * * The Disastrous Paradox of Russian Fear Putin and his coercive security services have created a problem among ordinary Russians that has no easy solution. Russia is being haunted by a new and very strange phenomenon: thousands of ordinary people -- teenagers and pensioners alike -- have been arrested after committing what could be described as acts of civil  more PR