Russia sends dissident to remote Arctic military base

Russia has sent an opposition activist to serve at a top secret military base in the Arctic in a move with echoes of the Tsarist era.  Ruslan Shaveddinov, a 23-year-old ally of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, had been appealing his military conscription when he disappeared on Monday after police broke into his flat and took him in for questioning. The military later said he had been sent to serve at the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic, home to a top secret miss