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Anti-Putin Protests Lead to Over 4,000 Arrests Across Russia Bloomberg 1/31/2021 Henry Meyer and Benjamin Dow (Bloomberg) -- More than 4,000 people were arrested across Russia, including the wife of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, as demonstrators engaged in anti-Putin protests for a second straight week. A heavy police presence and the halting of public transportation in Russia’s largest cities hindered efforts to track protest turnout, but figures for both the number of people arrested and cities that saw detentions surpassed last weekend’s totals, according t...

Anti-Putin Protests Lead to Over 4,000 Arrests Across Russia Bloomberg 1/31/2021 Henry Meyer and Benjamin Dow (Bloomberg) -- More than 4,000 people were arrested across Russia, including the wife of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, as demonstrators engaged in anti-Putin protests for a second straight week. A heavy police presence and the halting of public transportation in Russia’s largest cities hindered efforts to track protest turnout, but figures for both the number of people arrested and cities that saw detentions surpassed last weekend’s totals, according t...

Putin’s Popularity Slumps As Navalny Calls Fresh Protests Bloomberg 1/29/2021 Evgenia Pismennaya, Henry Meyer and Stepan Kravchenko (Bloomberg) -- Jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny is stepping up his battle with President Vladimir Putin, calling fresh mass protests this weekend as the Russian leader’s popularity slumps. Putin’s confidence rating fell to 53%, according to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation from Jan. 22-24, straddling the day tens of thousands of Russians rallied in cities across the country demanding Navalny’s release. That was th...

Putin Says Russia Could Have Killed Navalny Had It Wanted To Bloomberg 12/17/2020 Henry Meyer, Ilya Arkhipov and Stepan Kravchenko (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin dismissed reports linking Russia’s secret services to the near-fatal poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, saying if authorities had wanted to kill the politician they would have succeeded. Accusing Navalny of ties to U.S. intelligence, Putin said Russian agents needed to monitor him. “But this doesn’t mean at all we needed to poison him. Who is he of use to? If we had wanted to, we would hav...