A loud bang jolted the Tiulenevs as they sat around the dinner table on a windy night in southern Russia in the fall of 2024. Someone had hurled a Molotov cocktail toward their home, setting it ablaze. Later, the family found a note in the yard saying they should be sent “to hell,” indicating the attack was targeted. It came after they had spoken out repeatedly against Russia’s war on Ukraine, despite laws that made it illegal to publicly criticize the invasion. “Good thing we weren’t asleep,” s