What's new about Russia's new protests?
URL copied to clipboard Earlier this year, opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia provoked a political crisis and mass unsanctioned rallies. It seemed that Russia’s protest movement had reached a new level: a large number of new protesters, mass participation in cities and towns across the country, and, finally, new slogans, themes and emotions – all this pointed to a new development in the country’s democratic movement. But the latest unsanctioned protests, held in Rus...
Source: opendemocracy.net