MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors searched Amnesty International's Moscow offices on Monday in what activists say is a part of a state campaign to stifle dissent.
Since returning to the Kremlin in May, President Vladimir Putin has signed laws to tighten controls on non-governmental organisations, requiring those with foreign funding to register as "foreign agents", a term echoing Cold War era hostilities.
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